Compaq AA-RHGWC-TE manual Obtaining the Firmware Release Notes

Table 4–1: Planning Your Configuration (cont.)

To increase:	You can:
Disk availability	Mirror disks across shared buses.
	Use a RAID array controller.
Shared storage capacity	Increase the number of shared buses.
	Use a RAID array controller.
	Increase disk size.

4.2 Obtaining the Firmware Release Notes

You may be required to update the system or SCSI controller firmware during a TruCluster Server installation, so you may need the firmware release notes.

You can obtain the firmware release notes from:

•The Web at the following URL: http://www.compaq.com/support/

Select software & drivers, then select All Products under the Alpha Systems heading. Select Alpha Firmware updates, then select the appropriate system.

•The current Alpha Systems Firmware Update CD-ROM.

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To obtain the firmware release notes from the Firmware Update Utility CD-ROM, your kernel must be configured for the ISO 9660 Compact Disk File System (CDFS).

To obtain the release notes for the firmware update, follow these steps:

1.At the console prompt, or using the system startup log if the Tru64 UNIX operating system is running, determine the drive number of the CD-ROM.

2.Boot the Tru64 UNIX operating system if it is not already running.

3.Log in as root.

4.Place the Alpha Systems Firmware Update CD-ROM applicable to the Tru64 UNIX version installed (or to be installed) into the drive.

5.Mount the CD-ROM as follows (/dev/disk/cdrom0c is used as an example CD-ROM drive):

# mount -rt cdfs -o noversion /dev/disk/cdrom0cc /mnt

4–4TruCluster Server System Configuration Using UltraSCSI Hardware