RX2620 not detecting the tape drive in EFI BOOT MANAGER

[Yaboto]

Hi,

I have two RX2620 connected to a DDS tape drive each. When booting up to the EFI BOOT MANAGER, RX2620 server A could easily enumerate the hardware address to the tape drive as a boot option, but RX2620 server B could not. The surprise is that RX2620 server B could detect its DDS tape drive during early boot prior to the EFI BOOT MANAGER screen and even after the operating system has booted with ioscan -fnC tape.At OS level we could even do a backup to the DDS tape drive.
What could have been wrong ? Please help.

Regards,
Berenger

[Murat SULUHAN]

Hi

Did you enable stape driver in kernel?

Best Regards
Murat

[Deepak Kulkarni]

Hi,


Can you please post the output of map.

rgds
DK

[Torsten.]

I guess server A has newer firmware than server B.
Check and compare

MP:CM> sysrev

[Murat SULUHAN]

Hi

Sorry for my previous stupid response.

hp Integrity rx2620 System 04.10, BMC 04.01, and iLO MP E.03.28 Firmware Release

Added support for Tape Boot on U160 and U320 SCSI cards in combination with the HP-UX 11i v2 0606 Release.

By the way, following url has lates firmware
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/SoftwareIndex.jsp?lang=en&cc=us&prodNameId=441910&prodTypeId=15351&prodSeriesId=447331&swLang=13&taskId=135&swEnvOID=54#290
System 04.27, BMC 04.04 and iLO MP E.03.30


You can check your firmware release with sysrev in CM menu like Torsten sayed


I hope it helps to you

Best Regards
Murat