H162303: ECA016: FIRMWARE UPGRADE FOR SOME 4.5/9.1GB SCSI HARD DR IVES PURPOSE: This ECA provides for a microcode upgrade on the following IBM SCSI hard drives: 4.5 GB 80-Pin SCSI Hard Disk Drive (FRU p/n76H5817) 4.5 GB 80-Pin SCSI Hard Disk Drive (FRU p/n01K6675) 9.1 GB 80-Pin SCSI Hard Disk Drive (FRU p/n76H5818) 9.1 GB 80-Pin SCSI Hard Disk Drive (FRU p/n01K6679) 4.5 GB 68-Pin SCSI Hard Disk Drive (FRU p/n76H2697) 4.5 GB 68-Pin SCSI Hard Disk Drive (FRU p/n93G2970) 9.1 GB 68-Pin SCSI Hard Disk Drive (FRU p/n76H2698) 9.1 GB 68-Pin SCSI Hard Disk Drive (FRU p/n93G2972) 4.5 GB 50-Pin SCSI Hard Disk Drive (FRU p/n76H2695) 9.1 GB 50-Pin SCSI Hard Disk Drive (FRU p/n76H2696) The Microcode upgrade will function with the following disk subsystem adapters/controllers DAC 960 PL F/W RAID Adapter FRU p/n75H9011 (PC Server 704 only) Opt. p/n94G5884 Micro Channel RAID Adapter FRU p/n06H3059 Opt. p/n70G9263 PCI RAID Adapter FRU p/n06H5078 Opt. p/n94G2764 ServeRAID Adapter FRU p/n06H9334 Opt. p/n70G8489 ServeRAID Adapter FRU p/n76H6875 Opt. p/n70G8489 ServeRAID II Adapter FRU p/n76H3587 Opt. p/n76H3584 ServeRAID Onboard Controller (Integrated) PCI SCSI-2 F/W Adapter FRU p/n06H6473 Opt. p/n94G3771 PCI SCSI-2 F/W Adapter II FRU p/n06H8574 Opt. p/n94G4673 PCI SCSI-2 U/W Adapter FRU p/n60H7823 Opt. p/n76H5407 PCI SCSI-2 F/W Controller (Integrated) PCI SCSI-2 U/W Controller (Integrated) Servers eligible for this ECA may exhibit hard drive read errors on the hard drives specific to this ECA and/or may experience degradation of RAID disk subsystem performace due to read errors on the drives specific to this ECA. This ECA is FIX ON FAIL. FEATURES: Type, Machines Affected Model, With and/or Feature/Device B/M to be Service System Stage B/M Description Installed Hours Hours 8638 B/M0000000 PC SERVER 315 B/M0000000 00.5 00.3 8639 B/M0000000 PC SERVER 310 B/M0000000 00.5 00.3 8639 B/M0000000 PC SERVER 325 B/M0000000 00.5 00.3 8640 B/M0000000 PC SERVER 320 B/M0000000 00.5 00.3 8640 B/M0000000 PC SERVER 330 B/M0000000 00.5 00.3 8641 B/M0000000 PC SERVER 500 B/M0000000 00.5 00.3 8641 B/M0000000 PC SERVER 520 B/M0000000 00.5 00.3 8642 B/M0000000 PC SERVER 720 B/M0000000 00.5 00.3 8650 B/M0000000 PC SERVER 704 B/M0000000 00.5 00.3 8651 B/M0000000 NETFINITY 7000 B/M0000000 00.5 00.3 EMEA : (SAME MODELS) HOURS PER SYSTEM: 0.8 HOURS TRAVEL: 0.8 PHYSICAL CHECK: - Determine which SCSI Adapter(s)/Controller is present in the system (the Microcode Update will prompt for a SCSI Adapter /Controller selection when it is booted). PREREQUISITES: To Install ECA EC Physical Check B/M Required Required for Prerequisites B/M0000000 ECA000 EC000000 NONE COMPANION: To Install ECA Machine Comments B/M Required Type B/M0000000 ECA012 0000 THE UPDATE UTILITY PROMPTS FOR THE HARD DISK IDENTIFY DISKETTE USED IN ECA012. LIKEWISE, THE DISK IDENTIFY DISKETTE USED IN ECA012 PROMPTS FOR THE UPDATE UTILITY DISKETTE. CONCURRENT: To Install ECA Machine Comments B/M Required Type B/M0000000 ECA000 0000 RETAIN RECORD# H162302 IDENTIFIES A UPDATE UTILITY THAT IS ONLY FOR USE ON THE SERVERAID II ADAPTER. DETAIL: The Microcode update is executed from a Utility Update Diskette. This diskette is bootable. Upon boot, it will prompt for the user to select from a list of SCSI adapters to load the respective driver. When the driver loads, the adapter/controller will initialize and then the utility will search for the SCSI hard drives specific to this ECA. If found, the drive(s) Firmware will be flashed to a new microcode level (level 63) which fixes the read error issue. NOTE: If there are multiple SCSI adapters in the system that are identical, it will not be necessary to run the update utility for each adapter. NOTE: If there are multiple SCSI adapters of different types, then the Update Utility needs to be executed more than one time since the correct driver must be selected at boot time. The adapters are different and will respond to their respective drivers. The Update utility is located on the IBM Website listed as: "PC Server 4.5 - 9.1GB Hard Drive Update Diskette" Ver 1.00. The URL is: http://www.pc.ibm.com/us/files.html - Search on 9.1 GB. - Locate the file by the above description. - Download the file. It is a self extracting executable file that creates a diskette. NOTES: This ECA will expire December 31, 1998. IBM/TSS CE's should record all time to Service Code 33, ECA016, other office 990. ** EMEA Dealers: claim as type 5, referencing ECA016 ** Date: December 30, 1997