Old Firmware for New Old RX1600

[Stephen C. Jackson]

 I recently bought a brand new, never used, Itanium RX1600, built in 2004.  I don’t think it was ever registered with HP.  I need to update the machine’s firmware to run I64 OpenVMS V8.4.  It currently is running firmware version E01.02.  I have discovered I need firmware versions E.02.26 & E.02.29 to then upgrade it to the firmware I do have.  I have not been able to find any of this firmware on the web and of course HP wants a maintenance contract to help.

Can anyone help me.

[Torsten.]

The E.02... firmware is for the MP, you are right, steps are needed.

For most systems of this family:

E.02.10
E.02.26
E.02.29
E.03.32

This is the current software page:

http://h20565.www2.hp.com/portal/site/hpsc/template.PAGE/public/psi/swdHome/?sp4ts.oid=406201&spf_p.tpst=swdMain&spf_p.prp_swdMain=wsrp-navigationalState%3DswEnvOID%253D54%257CswLang%253D%257Caction%253DlistDriver&javax.portlet.begCacheTok=com.vignette.cachetoken&javax.portlet.endCacheTok=com.vignette.cachetoken

Here are some of the MP versions:

http://h20565.www2.hp.com/portal/site/hpsc/template.PAGE/public/psi/swdDetails/?sp4ts.oid=406201&spf_p.tpst=swdMain&spf_p.prp_swdMain=wsrp-navigationalState%3Didx%253D%257CswItem%253Dux_31874_1%257CswEnvOID%253D54%257CitemLocale%253D%257CswLang%253D%257Cmode%253D5%257Caction%253DdriverDocument&javax.portlet.begCacheTok=com.vignette.cachetoken&javax.portlet.endCacheTok=com.vignette.cachetoken

  Version:E.03.15 (EFI Image) (7 Jul 2005)   Version:E.03.13 (EFI Image) (31 Jan 2005)  

Version:E.02.29 (EFI Image) (22 Jun 2004)

Please go to

MP:CM>

and send us a "sysrev" output.

Example:

MP:CM> sysrev


SYSREV

Current firmware revisions

 MP FW     : E.03.15
 BMC FW    : 03.48
 EFI FW    : 02.14
 System FW : 02.18

[Stephen C. Jackson]

I seem to be missing part of your message.

I was able to download E.02.29.  Now I have to find a PC tar emulator.

I'm not quite sure of your shell commands.  When I boot up my firmware disk, it tells me I have:

System Firmware 1.10

BMC                            2.26

MP                               Unknown

Maybe I am not as bad off as I though I was.  I'm not sure where I got the 01.02 from.

[Torsten.]

Maybe you don't have a MP card (this was optional).

Copy the files to an USB stick, go to EFI and start the update:

http://h20565.www2.hp.com/portal/site/hpsc/template.PAGE/public/psi/swdDetails/?sp4ts.oid=406201&spf_p.tpst=swdMain&spf_p.prp_swdMain=wsrp-navigationalState%3Didx%253D2%257CswItem%253Dux_54921_1%257CswEnvOID%253D54%257CitemLocale%253D%257CswLang%253D%257Cmode%253D4%257Caction%253DdriverDocument&javax.portlet.begCacheTok=com.vignette.cachetoken&javax.portlet.endCacheTok=com.vignette.cachetoken

See the revision history, version 1.10 was the initial release:

http://h20565.www2.hp.com/portal/site/hpsc/template.PAGE/public/psi/swdDetails/?sp4ts.oid=406201&spf_p.tpst=swdMain&spf_p.prp_swdMain=wsrp-navigationalState%3Didx%253D%257CswItem%253Dux_54921_1%257CswEnvOID%253D54%257CitemLocale%253D%257CswLang%253D%257Cmode%253D5%257Caction%253DdriverDocument&javax.portlet.begCacheTok=com.vignette.cachetoken&javax.portlet.endCacheTok=com.vignette.cachetoken

[Stephen C. Jackson]

You are right, NO MP.  I was thinking of adding a supported graphics card to see if I could get beyond having serial terminals.

I copied both files CF_CEVERMPE0229.tar.gv and .tar to a USB 2.0 stick.  When I go to the EFI shell is sees to USB devices, the other being a keyboard, as blk0: & blk1:.  Not being much of a unix person, when I type either blk0: or blk1: and try to do a ls or dir, they give me an error of No Mapping.

Any more ideas

[Torsten.]

format the stick with FAT32 and unpack the files (try 7-zip). keep the stick connected while booting and look for fs0:

[Stephen C. Jackson]

I'm afraid I can't seem to make it work.

I actually put all 3 files on a FAT32 formated memory stick - .tar.fsz, .tar, and .efi.

No FS0 device on boot or in EFI shell.  I can map the blk0-4 to a fsx device, I can mount the blk0 or blk1 devices, but there seems to be nothing there.  I even tried to boot from a file using the USB, but that failed too.

[Torsten.]

do

reconnect -r

and

map -r

now.

fs0: visible? yIII u may try the ISO from the link I gave you.

sent from my mobile

[Stephen C. Jackson]

I'm sorry, I just got around trying out your last response.

reconnect -r  - Justs displays the 2 scsi disks & 2 ethernet ports

map -r - displays

blk0 :  xxxxxxxx/Ata(Primary, Master)

blk1:   xxxxxxxx/usb(0, 0)

blk2:   xxxxxxxx/usb(0,0)/HD(Part1, Sig00000000)

blk3:   xxxxxxxx/Scsi(Pun0,Lun0)

blk4:   xxxxxxxx/Scsi(Pun1,Lun0)

No fs0:

I seem to be still misunderstanding you.

[Torsten.]

There is the CD-ROM, the USB stick and the drives listed.

Something wrong with your USB stick?

NTFS formatted?

Try to fromat it again with FAT32 or burn the ISO file to a CD-ROM.

It should look like this:

Shell> map -r
Device mapping table
  fs0  : Acpi(HWP0002,0)/Pci(1|0)/Usb(1, 0)/HD(Part1,SigC3072E18)
  blk0 : Acpi(HWP0002,0)/Pci(2|0)/Ata(Primary,Master)
  blk1 : Acpi(HWP0002,0)/Pci(1|0)/Usb(1, 0)
  blk2 : Acpi(HWP0002,0)/Pci(1|0)/Usb(1, 0)/HD(Part1,SigC3072E18)