File Name: readme2.txt ****************************************************************** | | | IBM(R) UpdateXpress, Version 4.02 CD2 | | | | (C) Copyright International Business Machines Corporation, | | 2004, 2005. All rights reserved. | | | | US Government Users Restricted Rights -- Use, duplication | | or disclosure restricted by GSA ADP Schedule Contract with | | IBM Corp. | | | | Note: Before using this information and the product it | | supports, read the general information under "NOTICES | | AND TRADEMARKS" in this document. | | | | Updated 27 August 2005 | | | ****************************************************************** CONTENTS --------- 1.0 Overview 1.1 About this readme file 1.2 Abbreviations and terminology 2.0 Supported servers 3.0 UpdateXpress HTML Index and Update Packages 3.1 Supported Operating Systems 4.0 Update versions 4.1 Tape drive firmware updates 4.2 ServeRAID firmware updates 4.3 SCSI Hard drive firmware updates 5.0 Known problems and limitations 6.0 Change History 6.1 UpdateXpress Version 4.02 6.2 UpdateXpress Version 4.01 6.3 UpdateXpress Version 3.06 7.0 National language considerations 8.0 Web sites and support 9.0 Notices and trademarks 10.0 Disclaimer 1.0 OVERVIEW ------------- This section contains information about this readme file and the other information that is on CD2. 1.1 About this readme file --------------------------- This readme file contains the latest UpdateXpress support information for the following packages that are included on CD2: o Linux firmware update packages (non-BladeCenter systems only) For information about how to use these UpdateXpress with these packages, see the help\xPress\introduction.htm page at the root of this CD, or the IBM support Web site at: http://www.pc.ibm.com/support Search on the keyword: UpdateXpress Additional UpdateXpress utilities are included on CD1 and CD3. For information about the following UpdateXpress utilities, see the readme file on the applicable CD. CD1 (Windows support) o RemoteUX for Windows o UpdateXpress bootable CD for xSeries and pSeries (x86) systems (non-BladeCenter systems only) o Windows firmware and driver packages (non-BladeCenter systems only) CD3 (BladeCenter support) o Windows firmware update packages for BladeCenter units o Windows driver update packages for BladeCenter units o Linux firmware update packages for BladeCenter units o AIX firmware update packages for BladeCenter pSeries systems o RemoteUX for Windows o RemoteUX for Linux o UpdateXpress for BladeCenter xSeries and pSeries systems 1.2 Abbreviations and terminology ---------------------------------- The following abbreviations are used in this readme file: o Administrative console The system from which RemoteUX is launched. o Target system The managed object or system that is being updated. 2.0 SUPPORTED SERVERS ----------------------- UpdateXpress CD2 is supported on the following servers: Supported server Machine type Limitations =============================== ============ =============== xSeries(R) 200 8478 xSeries 200 8479 xSeries 200 8481 xSeries 205 8480 xSeries 206 8482 xSeries 206 8487 xSeries 220 8646 xSeries 225 8647 xSeries 225 8649 xSeries 226 8488 xSeries 226 8648 xSeries 232 8668 xSeries 235 8671 xSeries 236 8841 xSeries 255 8685 xSeries 300 8672 xSeries 305 8673 xSeries 306 1878 xSeries 306 8489 xSeries 306 8836 eServer 325 8835 eServer 326 8848 xSeries 330 8674 xSeries 330 8675 xSeries 335 8676 xSeries 335 8830 xSeries 336 1879 xSeries 336 8837 xSeries 342 8669 xSeries 345 8670 xSeries 346 1880 xSeries 346 8840 xSeries 360 8686 xSeries 365 8861 xSeries 365 8862 xSeries 366 8863 xSeries 440 8687 xSeries 440-16 8687 (Firmware only) xSeries 445 8870 xSeries 460 8872 xSeries 460 MXE 8874 pSeries(R) 7081 7081 (Firmware only) pSeries 7082 7082 (Firmware only) 3.0 UPDATEXPRESS HTML INDEX AND UPDATE PACKAGES ----------------------------------------------- UpdateXpress provides update packages for firmware and device drivers. In some cases, an update does not provide an unattended installation method and an update package is not provided. The root of UpdateXpress CD2 contains an index.htm file that displays information about the updates packages that are on the CD, and provides links to these files. Each update package is a self-extracting executable file. It can be copied to a target machine by clicking the matching link from the HTML index. Once an update package is copied to the target server, it can be launched from the command line. For more information, see the index.htm file on the root of the UpdateXpress CD2. Note: The minimum requirement to view the UpdateXpress HTML index is Internet Explorer version 4.01. 3.1 Supported Operating Systems ------------------------------- The UpdateXpress packages on this CD are supported on the following operating systems: o Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS/WS/ES 2.1 o Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS/WS/ES 3.0 o Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS/WS/ES 4.0* o SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 8 o SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9* *Due to limitations of a third party product that is used for the offline packages, some update packages are not compatible with SLES9 or RHEL4 operating systems. Specific support details are in the following table. If a specific system is not listed in the table, it either does not support SLES9 or RHEL4, or there are no update packages available for it. Legend: Y = Online package support N = Offline package support (not compatible with SLES9/RHEL4) N/A = No update package is available +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | System | Machine Type | BIOS | System Diagnostics | Service Processor | |===========================================================================| | e325 | 8835 | Y | N/A | N | | e326 | 8848 | N | N/A | N | | HS20 | 8832 | Y | Y | Y | | HS20 | 8678 | Y | Y | Y | | HS20 | 8843, 1883 | Y | Y | N | | HS40 | 8839 | N | N/A | N | | JS20 | 8842 | Y | N/A | N/A | | LS20 | 8832 | Y | Y | Y | | x205 | 8480 | N | N/A | N/A | | x206 | 8482, 8487 | Y | N/A | N/A | | x225 | 8647, 8649 | N | N/A | N/A | | x226 | 8648, 8488 | Y | N/A | N/A | | x235 | 8671 | Y | N | N | | x236 | 8841 | Y | Y | N | | x255 | 8685 | Y | N/A | N | | x305 | 8673 | N | N/A | N/A | | x306 | 8836, 8489, 1878 | Y | N/A | N | | x335 | 8676, 8830 | Y | N | N | | x336 | 8837, 1879 | Y | Y | N | | x342 | 8669 | N | N/A | N | | x345 | 8670 | Y | N/A | N | | x346 | 8840, 1880 | Y | Y | N | | x360 | 8686 | N | N/A | N/A | | x365 | 8861, 8862 | N | N/A | N/A | | x366 | 8863 | Y | Y | N | | x440 | 8687 | N | N/A | N/A | | x445 | 8870 | Y | Y | N/A | | x460 | 8872, 8874 | Y | Y | N | +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+ All Systems: o Broadcom, ServeRAID, SCSI HD's, IDE HD's, Tape and RSA updates are not compatible with SLES9 and RHEL4. o RAS II online update is supported on SLES9 and RHEL4. 4.0 UPDATE VERSIONS -------------------- 4.1 Tape drive firmware updates -------------------------------- For more information regarding tape drive firmware updates, please refer to the README file in the following location on the UpdateXpress CD: SGUIDE\ADAPT\tapefw\\pkgs\.txt 4.2 ServeRAID firmware updates ------------------------------------ For more information regarding ServeRAID firmware updates, please refer to the README file in the following location on the UpdateXpress CD: SGUIDE\MACH\\PKGS\BIOS\.txt 4.3 SCSI Hard drive firmware updates ------------------------------------- For more information regarding SCSI hard drive firmware updates, please refer to the README file in the following location on the UpdateXpress CD: SGUIDE\MACH\SCSIHDD\PKGS\DRIVEMIC\.txt 5.0 KNOWN PROBLEMS AND LIMITATIONS ----------------------------------- This section contains information about the known problems and limitations for UpdateXpress on CD1, CD2, and CD3. 5.1 Error flashing firmware on a Remote Supervisor Adapter UpdateXpress does not support flashing a Remote Supervisor Adapter while using the Remote Supervisor Adapter remote control function. In this case, the flash will fail. 5.2 One or more updates failed message when running the hard disk drive microcode update program from UpdateXpress. The SCSI hard disk drive update program included with UpdateXpress only updates microcode on hard drives attached to a SCSI controller. If your server contains only IDE or SATA based drives and controllers, the SCSI hard disk drive update program returns a "1" indicating that the update failed. 5.3 "Installation Failed" text messages displayed when booting from the UpdateXpress CD. During the text mode portion of the UpdateXpress boot process, UpdateXpress attempts to install several SCSI device drivers. The only device drivers that are installed are those that match the hardware that is installed in your server. The device drivers for SCSI adapters that are not installed in your server display error messages. This is normal. 5.4 UpdateXpress lists the versions of the IBM ServeRAID controller as "MANY" after flashing a system. If there is more than one type of ServeRAID controller in the server or the ServeRAID controllers have different firmware levels, UpdateXpress will display the ServeRAID versions as "MANY" after flashing. This is normal. 5.5 The RemoteUX application might drop connection to the target server The network connection to the target server might be dropped while using the RemoteUX application command line utility to update an Ethernet device driver (either with the -d or -pkg option). This does not interfere with applying the update, the update results are recorded in \uxlog\ux.log file. 5.6 ServeRAID device driver update does not upgrade the twintail.sys The ServeRAID device driver update does not automatically upgrade the twintail.sys device driver. 5.7 Updating "ibmfe" type device drivers does not preserve settings Updating Intel Ethernet device drivers that are using the ibmfe type device driver does not preserve the adapter settings. Updating the e100b.sys device driver does not have this problem. 5.8 No remote package for Windows 2000 or Windows 2003 SCSI Adaptec device driver update The SCSI Adaptec device driver update is based on a WinBatch script. This is not available as a remote update. 5.9 Updating device drivers might cause errors to appear in event viewer Errors could be listed in the event viewer since the device drivers must be stopped during the update process. After updating the device drivers and restarting the server, these errors should disappear. In addition, ServeRAID device driver errors may appear in event viewer if the ServeRAID device driver and firmware levels do not match. 5.10 UpdateXpress only updates Ultra160 SCSI controllers that use the adpu160m.sys device driver. For servers running Windows 2000, UpdateXpress detects and updates only Ultra160 SCSI controllers that use the device driver "adpu160m.sys". Other SCSI controllers are not detected or updated in this release. In addition, the adpu160m.sys driver supports multiple chipsets and if the improper chipset has previously been selected, the SCSI update may freeze. If this occurs, the user may press CTRL+ALT+DEL to regain control of the keyboard and mouse and manually stop the update. 5.11 The xSeries 205 and xSeries 305 BIOS package updates are supported for certain versions. The BIOS package update for the xSeries 205 is supported for level 30A or greater. The BIOS package update for the xSeries 305 is supported for level 41A or greater. Both updates are available directly from the bootable option of the UpdateXpress CD regardless of initial BIOS level. 5.12 UpdateXpress leaves ux*.tmp directories on the root of C: drive. For some device driver updates to successfully complete, UpdateXpress must leave the ux*.tmp directories on the hard disk drive. When all updates are successfully applied, these directories may be manually removed. Some device driver updates require one or more additional reboots before they are completed. 5.13 UpdateXpress requires that the target system has the "temp" environment variable defined, and that the directory defined by "temp" exists. 5.14 When updating the Intel network card device driver with a Windows 2000/2003 operating system, UpdateXpress also updates the ProSet utility. 5.15 Booting from the UpdateXpress CD will not work on servers with more than one IDE CD-ROM drive installed. Firmware can be updated by using the update packages or the RemoteUx application. 5.16 Running the ATI package on servers that either do not have an ATI adapter or have an unsupported ATI adapter results in an error message. You must manually accept this message to continue. 5.17 (Windows) Running the command "RemoteUX -e" or "RemoteUX -c" may not find all adapters that are in the target server. UpdateXpress displays only the information that is provided in the SMBIOS structure. Some adapters do not report their information in the SMBIOS structure, and are not displayed. 5.18 (Windows) When updating the Remote Supervisor Adapter using "RemoteUX -f" or through a package, the update returns an error code. This update might return an error code of 5 or 6. If this occurs, run the update again. This update might also return an error code of 8 indicating that the Remote Supervisor Adapter firmware does not match the current server. If this occurs, the Remote Supervisor Adapter can be updated by running UpdateXpress locally. 5.19 "Error in config.sys line 21" displayed when booting from UpdateXpress CD. The USB CDRom device driver will display this error whenever the UpdateXpress CD is booted on a server that does not contain a USB CD-ROM. This error is harmless and can be ignored. 5.20 Driver Update Package GUI contains no default selection. If a firmware update is currently scheduled for the next system restart and a driver package is run, nothing on the GUI will be selected. Clicking next without selecting anything appears to unschedule the firmware update. However, this does not change the originally scheduled firmware update. If a selection is made on the GUI, the device driver update will work normally. 5.21 Updating the service processor device driver in an xSeries 330 (8674) or xSeries 330 (8675) server may force reboot. Your server may automatically reboot when updating the service processor device driver if all of the following conditions are met: 1. The update is being performed on an xSeries 330 (8674) or xSeries 330 (8675) server. 2. The server contains and RSA adapter. 3. The current level of the RSA device driver is v4.98 or less. In this case, UpdateXpress will complete normally and ask that you restart the server. After the server restarts, it will automatically restart again 1-2 minutes later. This second restart is forced by the service processor device driver update program. After the second restart, the service processor device driver will be updated to the current level. 5.22 UpdateXpress will not update the IBM Automatic Server Restart Service ASR or Integrated Systems Management Processor Drivers. 5.23 Active PCI device driver update returns an error code of 2. If the version of the Active PCI driver currently installed is at the same level or a later level than the version contained in the Active PCI device driver update, the update will return an error code of 2. On some servers, the update will also return a 2 if the current device driver level is 1.0.0.9 or less. If this occurs, uninstall the current driver and run the update again. 5.24 (Windows) RemoteUX -c and RemoteUX -e may report certain levels as "Unknown" On machines with older BIOS levels, RemoteUX -e and/or -c may report Diagnostics levels as "Unknown". This is a result of the Diagnostics level not appearing in the SMBIOS structure, from which RemoteUX obtains firmware information. This issue is usually resolved by updating the server to the latest BIOS level. Furthermore, RemoteUX will also report older levels of ServeRAID BIOS as "Backlevel" although ServeRAID firmware will be reported correctly. Once the ServeRAID BIOS/Firmware is updated to the latest level, RemoteUX will report both levels correctly. 5.25 (Windows) RemoteUX -c and RemoteUX -e will not report Service Processor firmware levels on xSeries 330 machines (models 8674, and 8675). 5.26 RSA II firmware update special considerations 1. Before you use UpdateXpress to update the RSA II firmware, install the RSA II device driver. 2. If the firmware currently installed on the RSA II is for a different server, you cannot use UpdateXpress to update it. 5.27 The History of Changes field on the index.htm might be empty The updates that display on the index.htm page might display partial change history information about the updates. To launch a text file that provides comprehensive information about an update, click the Readme button for the corresponding UpdateXpress package. 5.28 (Windows) The RemoteUX -f command will not update Hard Disk Drive or Tape firmware for Hard Disks or Tape Drives that are attached to an LSI SCSI controller. In this case, the Hard Disk Drive or Tape drive firmware can still be updated by booting off the UpdateXpress CD or by using the update package. 5.29 On some systems, UpdateXpress cannot detect the version of the ISMP firmware that is currently installed. As a result, the ISMP firmware displays as "Unknown" and UpdateXpress attempts to update the firmware each time you run the application. 5.30 UpdateXpress will not update the Advanced Systems Management (ASM) device driver on Windows 2003 if the version currently installed is 4.98 or less. In this case, the ASM device driver will not be listed on the UpdateXpress GUI. 5.31 UpdateXpress will not update the Active PCI device driver on Windows 2003 if the version currently installed is 1.0.0.9. In this case, the device driver will be grayed out on the UpdateXpress GUI. To update this device driver, you must first uninstall it manually and then run UpdateXpress again. 5.32 UpdateXpress cannot detect the version of the RSA2 video BIOS that is currently installed. As a result, the system BIOS displays as "Unknown" and UpdateXpress attempts to update the BIOS each time you run the application. 5.33 BIOS level 55A or higher is required to support bootable-CD mode on the BladeCenter HS40 (8839). For BIOS levels lower than 55A firmware packages may be applied from a remote machine using RemoteUX. 5.34 Limitation when flashing back bios: For new levels of system BIOS (released on or after June, 2004): If the system is configured using the Integrated Mirroring feature for the integrated SCSI controller, upon flashing to the new system bios level, the RAID configuration will be converted to a new format. This new LSI format is unreadable by earlier levels of code. Affected bios builds are listed below. After flashing up to the levels below, if it later becomes necessary to return the system to the previous bios level, the customer must follow instructions in retain tip H182244 to recover their LSI SCSI Configuration. The following servers are affected: xSeries 445, Type 8870, any Model. Bios version 1.15 xSeries 365, Type 8861, any Model. Bios version 1.08 xSeries 345, Type 8670, any Model. Bios version 1.17 xSeries 335, Type 8676, any Model. Bios version 1.12 xSeries 235, Type 8671, any Model. Bios version 1.13 xSeries 225, Type 8647, any Model. Bios version 1.07 BladeCenter HS20, Type 8832, any Model. Bios version 1.06 5.35 If there are redundant management modules and the IP addresses are obtained through DHCP, UXBC requires the redundant management module to obtain the same IP address as the primary management module upon failover. This is only true if the existing firmware version is earlier than 57K. 5.36 If the management modules are updated, they will be restarted during the update process. 5.37 The firmware level of the management modules cannot be updated to an earlier version by using the UXBC utility. 5.38 In environments where IBM Director is being run, IBM Director might connect to the administrative port (6090) of the management module when a global scan is initiated. This might impact the ability to connect to the management module with the UXBC utility. To resolve this issue make sure that the username and password for the management module are NOT set to the manufacturer defaults. If they are, change the username and password of the management module and restart the system. A restart of the management module, will always release the administrative port. 5.39 IBM ESM configuration settings can be reset when updating from a firmware version earlier than .081 (version 1.04) to a firmware version at or later than .081. Link aggregation settings are lost during this firmware update and are reset to the default values. If link aggregation settings or port trunking are configured differently that the default settings, do not use UXBC, unless you can manually reconfigure the switch afterward. 5.40 In a small percentage of cases the UXBC utility might not be able to confirm that the firmware update for the IBM ESM completed. In this case the log file will have a warning stating that "Update completion could not be verified". In every test that was conducted where the UXBC utility was not able to verify that the flashing completed, the ESM switch had successfully been updated. However, you should manually verify that the IBM ESM is at the correct version. 5.41 Running multiple instances of the ChassisUpdate script against more than one BladeCenter chassis at a time from an administrative system can produce undesirable results and is not supported. 5.42 When copying a response file from one platform to another, such as Windows to Linux or vice-versa, it is recommended that the BladeScanner tool for the target platform be run in edit mode, and the update paths be updated accordingly. 5.43 gnome-terminal does not always clear or display the screen correctly when using the BladeScanner application. If you experience a problem use a different terminal program such as xterm. 5.44 (Linux) RemoteUX uses PowerQuest Virtual Boot Environment (PQ-VBE) to remotely update firmware on xSeries systems. PQ-VBE does not support Reiser FS, which means that the remote directory (-r) specified in RemoteUX must be a non Reiser FS, such as FAT32, or Ext2 or Ext3. This is not a limitation on JS20 blade servers, because the update process on JS20 does not use PQ-VBE. This means that the UXBC utility cannot be used to update Linux blade servers that are only using Reiser FS. 5.45 (Linux) RemoteUX requires that compat-libstdc++ module is installed on both the administrative console and the Target system when running RHEL 3.0, SLES 8 and SLES 9. If this compactability module is not installed you will get a return code of 127 in the /uxlog/ux.log file on the target system. The log entry will look similar to: Tue Jan 18 21:47:57 EST 2005, Schedule Update=RemoteUX , New=, Status=Failed, ReturnCode=127 The /uxlog/output.log file will complain about the current standard c++ libraries and will contain messages similar to the following: ./vfile: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory ./vfile: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory vdinstlx: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory 5.46 (Linux) Do not change media tray while remotely updating Linux blade servers Do not change media tray (CD and Floppy) selection while remotely updating xSeries Linux blade servers with RemoteUX. If a Linux blade server boots with the media tray selected, then the media must remain selected when remotely updating the blade server. Similarly, if the media tray was not selected at boot time it must remain unselected when remotely updating the blade server. Changing the media tray will prevent the update running and will produce error 24. The /uxlog/ux.log file will contain an error similar to: Tue Jan 18 21:39:28 EST 2005, Schedule Update=RemoteUX , New=, Status=Failed, ReturnCode=24 The /uxlog/output.log file will contain an error similar to: Processing file /tmp/vfrmbtlx/VDisk.vfd Using PQEngine to get file cluster list FileSize = 98304000 Unable to get engine cluster list for file /tmp/vfrmbtlx/VDisk.vfd. [DeleteVolumeExtentList] Destroying extent entry 0 Error: Unable to generate sector map for file '/tmp/vfrmbtlx/VDisk.vfd'. Another alternative solution is to remove the usb-storage module with the rmmod command before the update is scheduled. 5.47 (Linux) RemoteUX requires that Perl is installed on the target system. 5.48 The BladeCenter Brocade switch requires that the firmware .zip file be unzipped into a directory on the required FTP server. The path that must be entered into BladeScanner for this update is the path to the top level directory appended by release.plist. ex. path/to/brocade/4.2.1a/release.plist Refer to the README included with the Brocade firmware update for more information. 5.49 The system version for the IPMI mapping layer and Intel chipset device driver can not be discovered. Therefore, after an update the selection box in the user interface remains checked. 5.50 If a management module is flashed from 57 (or higher) to a release below 57, and login profile IDs are modified or added, then these profiles will show up as read/only profiles when the management module is eventually flashed back up to 57 or higher. 5.51 The QLogic Fibre Channel daughter card firmware update is always selected by default on the JS20 bootable CD3. The is because the system level is currently reported as "Unknown". 5.52 In Windows 2003 Service Pack 1, executing an update package will display a Windows "Unknown Publisher" dialogue. The dialogue is normal and will not interfere with the update. 5.53 UpdateXpress does not currently support spaces in directory paths or filenames. 5.54 When booting the UpdateXpress CD 1 on an xSeries 460 multi-node system the BIOS flash program will update the BIOS on all the nodes in the system. However, the System Diagnostics flash program will only update the Diagnostics on the primary node. 5.55 In order to update the ServeRAID firmware to the latest level using UpdateXpress, the current ServeRAID firmware must be at level 5.10 or higher. 5.56 When booting the UpdateXpress CD 3 on a BladeCenter HS20 (8843), UpdateXpress does not Flash the BMC. The 8843 BMC Firmware, can only be flashed by using the UpdateXpress package. 5.57 The Windows version of RemoteUX will not restart the target server when given the -a -r option if the target server has been locked or a screensaver is active that requires a password to log on. 5.58 The Windows IPMI Device Driver for the eServer 325 and eServer 326 does not contain version information. Consequently, UpdateXpress will always display the system version of this driver as 0.0 even after it is updated. 5.59 When running RemoteUX (Linux) against a target system running RHEL 2.1, the target system must have libstdc++ and libgcc installed. If these are not installed the update will not be able to schedule, and the /uxlog/ux.log file will contain an error similar to: Tue Jan 18 21:39:28 EST 2005, Schedule Update=RemoteUX , New=, Status=Failed, ReturnCode=19 The /uxlog/output.log file will contain an error similar to: Unable to find file "slist.so" This file is contained in /tmp/vfrmbtlx on the target system. Issuing the command "ld /tmp/vfrmbtlx/slist.so" will return why the library was not able to load. 5.60 If the QLogic HBA update package for the JS20 is run on a system with SLES9 installed, it is required that the system be updated to at least SP2. 5.61 Windows 2000 SP4 is required to update the Broadcom Device Driver. 5.62 The update level for the BMC firmware on IBM xSeries 366 and 460 Servers is not listed in the UpdateXpress help. If you boot the UpdateXpress CD on these Servers, the BMC firmware can be updated to level 24A, version 1.07. 5.63 If the Microsoft Management Console (MMC) is open when running the Intel v10.0 Network Driver update program. The Intel program will display a prompt asking the user if it is safe to close the MMC. Selecting "Yes" will allow the update to continue. 5.64 Remoteux -f will not update the System BIOS on an xSeries 440 (8687) Multi-node Server. To remotely update the System BIOS on this server, please use the xSeries 440 Multi-node BIOS update package located on the UpdateXpress CD. The index.htm file on the root of the UpdateXpress CD contains a link to this update package. 5.65 RemoteUX -f (Linux) will not update the Broadcom firmware on a JS20 running AIX. 5.66 RemoteUX -f will not run the SCSI HDD update utility to update the firmware on the SCSI hard drives in the system. To update the SCSI drives, use the bootable CD, or RemoteUX -pkg. 5.67 The UpdateXpress GUI will update the Intel network interface card driver to the 8.3 version. If the version 10 driver is desired, please use the included v10 package instead. 6.0 CHANGE HISTORY -------------------- This section contains information about the UpdateXpress change history. 6.1 UpdateXpress Version 4.02 ------------------------------ UpdateXpress Version 4.02 includes the following changes: o Support for the Microsoft Windows 2003 Server x64 o Support for the eServer BladeCenter LS20 (machine type 8850) o Support for the xSeries 460 (machine type 8872) o Support for the xSeries MXE 460 (machine type 8874) o Removed support for the xSeries 220 (machine type 8645) o Removed support for the xSeries 330 (machine type 8654) 6.2 UpdateXpress Version 4.01 ------------------------------ UpdateXpress Version 4.01 includes the following changes: o Support for the xSeries 366 (machine type 8863) o Removed support for the xSeries 455 (machine type 8855) o Added CD3 including UpdateXpress BladeCenter Utility with support for BladeCenter Management Module and I/O Modules. o Added RemoteUX for Linux supporting BladeCenter blade servers only. o Reorganized CDs into: CD1: Windows non-blade server packages and local and remote updates CD2: Linux non-blade server packages CD3: Windows and Linux blade server packages and local and remote updates 6.3 UpdateXpress Version 3.06 ------------------------------ UpdateXpress Version 3.06 includes the following changes: o Support for the xSeries 226 (machine type 8648), the xSeries 236 (machine type 8841), the xSeries 336 (machine type 8837), the xSeries 346 (machine type 8840), the eServer 326 (machine type 8848), the BladeCenter JS20 (machine type 8842) and the BladeCenter HS20 (machine type 8843) 7.0 NATIONAL LANGUAGE CONSIDERATIONS -------------------------------------- UpdateXpress can be started, on any supported server installed with a non-English Windows 2000/2003 operating system. 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