[powerstation-owners] fw updated for 572C planar sas adapter

[Adrian Reber]

Does the PowerStation firmware still detect the drives correctly?

On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 04:00:34PM +0100, acrux wrote:
> done, it's safe.
> 
> [...]
> ipr: IBM Power RAID SCSI Device Driver version: 2.5.3 (March 10, 2012)
> ipr 0001:01:01.0: Found IOA with IRQ: 18
> ipr 0001:01:01.0: Using 32-bit DMA via iommu
> ipr 0001:01:01.0: Starting IOA initialization sequence.
> ipr 0001:01:01.0: Adapter firmware version: 0420003A
> ipr 0001:01:01.0: IOA initialized.
> 
> 
> [...]
>                     IOA Hardware Resource Information Details
> 
> 
> Manufacturer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . : IBM
> Machine Type and Model . . . . . . . . . : 572C001SISIOA
> Firmware Version . . . . . . . . . . . . : 0420003A
> Serial Number. . . . . . . . . . . . . . : 00000001
> Part Number. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . : 000000000000
> Plant of Manufacturer. . . . . . . . . . : 0000
> DRAM Size. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . : 14 MB
> Resource Name. . . . . . . . . . . . . . : /dev/sg3
> 
> Physical location
> PCI Address. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . : 0001:01:01.0
> SCSI Host Number . . . . . . . . . . . . : 0
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, 10 Jan 2013 10:30:57 +0100
> acrux <acrux_it at libero.it> wrote:
> 
> > hi all,
> > 
> > in order to update microcode (firmware) on scsi integrated controller of some power4 and power5 machines i found there are a lot of updates for:
> > PCI-X266 Planar 3Gb SAS Adapter (CCIN 2BE0, 572C, 57D0)
> > http://download.boulder.ibm.com/ibmdl/pub/software/server/firmware/sissas_0420003a.html
> > 
> > Reading infos from 'iprconfig' i can see that on my Powerstation there is a 572C001SISIOA with 01200018 fw release.
> > 
> > Do you think is appropriate and safe try to update it?
> > 
> > regards,
> > --nico
> > -- 
> > acrux <acrux at cruxppc.org>