SOFTPAQ NUMBER: SP30315
PART NUMBER: 364864-403
FILE NAME: SP30315.EXE
TITLE: Systems ROMPaq Firmware Upgrade Diskette for HP ProLiant
DL585 G1 Servers.
VERSION: 4.09B
LANGUAGE: English
CATEGORY: ROMPaqs
DIVISIONS: Systems
PRODUCTS AFFECTED: HP ProLiant DL585 G1
OPERATING SYSTEM: ALL
SYSTEM CONFIGURATION: N/A
PREREQUISITE: N/A
EFFECTIVE DATE: May 13, 2005
ELECTRONIC DISTRIBUTION ALLOWED: Yes
SOFTPAQ UTILITY VERSION: 2.X
SUPERSEDES: SP30133
DESCRIPTION: This release provides updated system ROM images
for the latest maintenance releases of HP
DL585 G1 Servers.
New Features -
ProLiant DL585 G1 ROM A01 (04/22/2005)
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None.
Problems Fixed -
ProLiant DL585 G1 ROM A01 (04/22/2005)
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IMPORTANT: HP recommends that users do not continue to upgrade
to the 04/22/2005 version of the System ROM. HP recommends
users update to the 04/30/2005 System ROM. The 04/22/2005
System ROM worked-around a potential PCI configuration
cycle data corruption issue with the Virtual Serial Port
feature by removing support for using the Virtual Serial Port
at standard COM port addresses. The 04/30/2005 System ROM
fixes the original PCI configuration cycle data corruption issue
while allowing use of HP's enhanced Virtual Serial Port feature
at standard COM port addresses.
During HP's rigorous quality control testing of the
ProLiant BL25p, ProLiant BL35p, ProLiant DL385, and
ProLiant DL585, a potential issue was discovered. This
issue is related to a possible corruption of PCI
Configuration Cycles when using HP's Virtual Serial Port
feature. This issue has never been duplicated in a customer
environment or a testing environment. However, HP identified
this possible issue while doing detailed analysis of analyzer
traces of these systems. Corruption of PCI Configuration
Cycles could result in incorrect system operation such as a
kernel panic, blue screen, or exception. While no customer
issues have been identified due to this potential issue,
HP is committed to ensuring its products provide customers
with the highest reliability and has provided an immediate
resolution for this issue.
HP requires that customers transition to this new System
ROM to eliminate the possibility of corruption of PCI
Configuration Cycles. While this issue does not affect
platforms with Virtual Serial Port disabled, HP still
recommends all customers transition to the new System
ROM.
This ROM makes a modification to the Virtual Serial Port
feature that allows redirection of serial console through
HP's iLO management processor. The previous System ROM
supported an enhancement of the Virtual Serial Port feature
which allowed redirection of serial console at standard COM
port addresses. This version of the System ROM removes this
Virtual Serial Port enhancement to prevent the potential of
corrupting PCI Configuration Cycles. This ROM still supports
Virtual Serial Port, but not at standard COM port addresses.
The Virtual Serial Port will now work as it did on previous
generations of HP ProLiant servers.
HP is currently in the process of qualifying a fix for the
enhanced Virtual Serial Port feature in these platforms that
will be released in a future System ROM upgrade.
For Windows users, the operating system will automatically
detect the new non-standard COM port addresses for
serial communication using Windows Emergency Services. Linux
users will be required to configure the operating system's
serial port redirection to use the new non-standard addresses
for serial communication. In addition, BIOS Serial Console
cannot be redirected through the Virtual Serial Port with this
System ROM.
After upgrading the platform with this System ROM, the
Virtual Serial Port configuration will automatically be
transitioned from the enhanced version of Virtual Serial
Port to the standard version of Virtual Serial Port if the
system was previously configured to enable Virtual Serial Port.
The following is the method of configuring the standard
version of Virtual Serial Port:
1. Configure the EMS selection for Remote using RBSU (this
will automatically occur when updating the ROM if EMS was
previously configured to use the Virtual Serial Port prior
to the upgrade of the System ROM).
The following steps are required only for Linux users. Setting
EMS to Remote is all that is required for Windows users to
redirect Emergency Management Services to iLO.
2. The I/O address and/or interrupt must be configured using
the setserial command from Linux. Refer to your
documentation for the setserial command.
Example: setserial /dev/ttyS0/ uart 16550A port 0x4908 irq 4
(Port 0x4908 is the address utilized for Virtual Serial Port
for the addressed HP ProLiant Systems.)
Note: If you receive the error "cannot set serial info : device
or resource busy", comment out the line in /etc/inittabl
that sets the VSP tty (it begins with S0 or S1) and run
the telinit q command. Edit the /etc/inittab file again
and uncomment the previous changes. Then rerun the
setserial command again.
3. In order to start a shell session on the configured UART,
the appropriate Linux process needs to be started. This
process can be started from the shell, but is usually
configured in the /etc/rc.local or /etc/rc.d/boot.local
file in order to have the process available after the
kernel has booted.
Refer to your Linux documentation for the appropriate
/etc/inittab configuration and documentation for agetty.
If sluggish performance is seen with Virtual Serial Port in iLO
when configured for IRQ 3 or 4 running Linux operating systems,
set the IRQ to 0 using the setserial command as follows:
setserial /dev/ttyS0 uart 16550A port 0x4908 irq 0
For more information, see the Virtual Serial Port white paper at
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c00263709/c00263709.pdf
Resolved an intermittent issue in which when the user changed
the date and time in the operating system, the date and time
may become invalid.
HOW TO USE:
1. Obtain a formatted 1.44 MB diskette.
2. Download the SoftPaq to a directory on your hard drive and change to that directory.
The file that is downloaded is SP30315.EXE.
3. From that drive and directory, execute the SoftPaq file:
SP30315 [ENTER]
You will be prompted to place the formatted 1.44 MB diskette into a diskette drive to
create diskette.
4. After the diskette is created, you may delete the downloaded file
SP30315.EXE if you wish.
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