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Installing the A6828A Adapter

Using the Extended Firmware Interface Flash Utility

If you are installing the A6829A SCSI HBA in an Itanium®-based system, use the Extended Firmware Interface (EFI) ﬂash utility to verify the ﬁrmware version, or to ﬂash and save ﬁrmware images onto the A6829A HBA.

The EFI ﬂash utility is supported on HP A6829A SCSI HBA, which is based on the 53C1010 LSI Logic SCSI chip.

Features

The features of the EFI ﬂash utility are as follows:

•Supports HBA selection for updating the SCSI parameters.

•Displays the ﬁrmware version on an HBA or in a ﬁrmware image ﬁle.

•Supports a menu driven mode.

•Allows you to ﬂash the EFI option ROM images.

	Description
	This utility allows you to update the HBA ﬂash memory with the LSI
	Logic EFI driver. New versions of these images are released periodically.
	Your HBA must have a ﬂash memory to use this utility.
	Do not attempt to use this utility to ﬂash any binaries other than
WARNING
	the EFI option ROM images.
	The executable ﬁle name of the EFI utility is EFI8XXFL.EFI. This ﬁle,

	and any ﬁrmware image ﬁles you need, must be stored on a diskette or
	CD-ROM. These ﬁles must not be stored on a hard disk, because if the
	ﬂash fails, there is no way to recover these ﬁles. Moreover, the hard disk
	may not be accessible.

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