Hi, this weekend I wanted to update our Alphaserver 1000A-4/266 from
TRu64 V4.0 to V4.0F.
During the firmware update with the V5.5 CD the SRM-update failed.
An extract of the output follows:
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                           DO NOT ABORT!
ARC             Updating to v4.58...  Verifying v4.58...  PASSED.
SRM             open failure firmware filename 'srm_fw'
pkd0            Updating to A11...  Verifying A11...  PASSED.
UPD> verify
ARC             Verifying v4.58...  PASSED.
SRM             open failure firmware filename 'srm_fw'
pkd0            Verifying A11...  PASSED.
UPD> list
Device         Current Revision    Filename            Update Revision
ARC               v4.58            arc_fw                 v4.58
SRM               v4.6-224         srm_fw              Missing file
pkd0              A11              kzpsa_fw              A11
                                   ccmab_fw               22
                                   dfeaa_fw                1.3
                                   dfeab_fw                3.10
                                   dfxaa_fw                3.10
...
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Then I decided to use the V5.3 CD but I got the same message.
Now the console shows:
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...
Firmware
14:57:24 SRM Console: V4.6-224
14:57:24 ARC Console: v4.57
14:57:24 PALcode: VMS PALcode V5.56-4, OSF PALcode X1.45-9
14:57:24 Serial Rom: V2.8
14:57:24
14:57:24 Processor
14:57:24 DECchip (tm) 21064A-2 266MHz
...
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After this I decided only to upgrade to V4.0E of Tru64 and till now
everythings runs fine.
But of course I want to do a correct firmware upgrade.
Any hints??
Kees Bol
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Received on Tue Jul 27 1999 - 13:13:52 NZST