SRM Console Firmware Bugs and Restrictions

Things You Should Know the First Time You Power On Your Machine

4Code changes have been implemented to correct a problem where crash dumps written to disks connected via a CIPCA adapter would fail to complete. Prior to V6.0 ﬁrmware, on clusters with heavy I/O loads a crash dump to a CIPCA connected disk may fail with the following messages being reported: MSCP: Attempting to reestablish connection MCSP: Continuing device * no longer valid

5Update ﬁrmware (CCMAB) for the Memory Channel adapter is no longer supplied nor supported with ﬁrmware releases. The LFU utility cannot properly update new revisions of the hardware.

3.6SRM Console Firmware Bugs and Restrictions

The following are known bugs and restrictions with AlphaServer 4100

SRM console ﬁrmware version V6.0.

1Conﬁguring an HSD30 at a higher DSSI node ID than that of the KFPSA will result in the SRM console not seeing devices when a console SHOW DEVICE command is issued.

2If running OpenVMS or DIGITAL UNIX, the MEMORY_TEST environment variable must be set to FULL (default). PARTIAL and NONE are not yet supported.

3SRM console V4.8-6 or above supports mixing of the B3002-AB (5/300 2-MB CPU) and B3004-BA CPUs within a system. If you mix modules, you must conﬁgure the system such that a B3002-AB is the primary CPU. NOTE: Systems running OpenVMS (V6.2-1H3 or V7.1) require a patch image (ALPCPU1601_071) to support the B3002 and B3004 in mixed conﬁgurations.

4VGAs conﬁgured as console display devices must be in PCI0.

5The system must be reset prior to running LFU from console. Booting the LFU off CD-ROM does not require a system reset.

6Updating to SRM console V5.4 requires running the update procedure twice if not using the BOOT command update method for updates or if updating from any version of console prior to V5.3.

7Downgrading from SRM console to a version prior to V5.3 requires the update procedure be run twice.

3.7Windows NT serviceability information

3.7.1Software requirements

Software revision information, for Windows NT serviceability support and ﬁles can be found at the following URLs. http://www.compaq.com/support/ﬁles/alphant/index.html

•N.T. 4.0 HAL OEM Revision E (includes PAL V2.2)

DECevent NT Version 3.2 or greater.

•http://www.service.digital.com/decevent/

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