Things You Should Know the First Time You Power On Your Machine
3.4SRM Console Firmware Supported Boot Devices
The PCI I/O options/devices listed in Table
Table
Name | Description |
KFPSA | (PCI NCR825 DSSI) |
KZPDA | (PCI Qlogic ISP1020 FWSE SCSI / PPB bridge) |
KZPSA | (PCI FWD SCSI) |
KZPSC | (PCI RAID 1- and |
KZPAC | (PCI RAID 1- and |
KZPBA | (PCI Qlogic ISP1020 16b FWD SCSI) |
KZPAA | (PCI NCR810 SE SCSI) |
CIPCA | (PCI CI) |
DE435 | (PCI Ethernet, MOP and BOOTP) |
DE450 | (PCI Ethernet, MOP and BOOTP) |
DE500 | (PCI Fast Ethernet, MOP and BOOTP) |
DEFPA | (PCI FDDI and CDDI single- and |
FLOPPY | (Local RX23 1.44 MB Floppy) |
(Local NCR810 SCSI |
Note: the AlphaServer 4100 SRM console does not support any EISA options as boot devices.
3.5New Features, Changes and Bugs Fixed in the V6.0 SRM Console
The following changes, since the V5.9 SRM console release, are part of the
V6.0 SRM console.
1Release notes have been revised since the V6.0 release. The KZPCC option is not to be supported on the AlphaServer 4x00 systems so references to this option and associated pages have been removed.
2The driver code was modified to fix a problem where the system would hang when multiple nodes respond to a MOP request when MOP booting via an FDDI controller.
3Code changes have been implemented to fix a probe timeout failure on KGPSA devices. A message containing "probe timeout" indicates that a fibre channel node (HSG80, KGPSA) is in an unresponsive state and may, prior to V6.0 firmware, prevent access to the disks for WWIDMGR commands, show device commands, booting a disk or writing a crash dump to the disk. With V6.0 firmware, the console skips attempting to access unresponsive nodes but will report a "probe timeout retry" message. There should be no loss of access to online disks.