07-24-2009
Update firmware HBA
Hello
I have a question
I have several partitions P550 Aix 5.3 and I need to update the HBA firmware, in some partitions I have two HBA and in others I have one HBA only.
My question is if I have to reboot my partitions after update the firmware level. and If I can do it online or I have to stop something.
This is one output from the lscfg -vl fcs0 command
lscfg -vl fcs0
Part Number.................03N6441
EC Level....................A
Serial Number...............1B54804DF5
Manufacturer................001B
Customer Card ID Number.....280B
FRU Number.................. 03N6441
Device Specific.(ZM)........3
Network Address.............10000000C94EC287
ROS Level and ID............02881914
Device Specific.(Z0)........1001206D
Device Specific.(Z1)........00000000
Device Specific.(Z2)........00000000
Device Specific.(Z3)........03000909
Device Specific.(Z4)........FF801315
Device Specific.(Z5)........02881914
Device Specific.(Z6)........06831914
Device Specific.(Z7)........07831914
Device Specific.(Z8)........20000000C94EC287
Device Specific.(Z9)........TS1.90A4
Device Specific.(ZA)........T1D1.90A4
Device Specific.(ZB)........T2D1.90A4
Device Specific.(ZC)........00000000
Thanks for your comments
Greetings
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LEARN ABOUT SUNOS
devinfo
devinfo(1M) System Administration Commands devinfo(1M)
NAME
devinfo - print device specific information
SYNOPSIS
/usr/sbin/devinfo -i device
/usr/sbin/devinfo -p device
DESCRIPTION
The devinfo command is used to print device specific information about disk devices on standard out. The command can only be used by the
superuser.
OPTIONS
-i Prints the following device information:
o Device name
o Software version (not supported and prints as 0)
o Drive id number (not supported and prints as 0)
o Device blocks per cylinder
o Device bytes per block
o Number of device partitions with a block size greater than zero
-p Prints the following device partition information:
o Device name
o Device major and minor numbers (in hexadecimal)
o Partition start block
o Number of blocks allocated to the partition
o Partition flag
o Partition tag
This command is used by various other commands to obtain device specific information for the making of file systems and determining parti-
tion information. If the device cannot be opened, an error message is reported.
OPERANDS
device Device name.
EXIT STATUS
0 Successful operation.
2 Operation failed.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWcsu |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO
prtvtoc(1M), attributes(5)
SunOS 5.10 8 May 1997 devinfo(1M)