Flashing Bios And Efi Driver On The First Controller; Common Questions About Flashing Firmware; Viewing The Vpd Information For Efi Driver And Risc Firmware; Efi Commands - HP Integrity rx6600 User's & Service Manual

Another way for the firmware to be flashed is done without your knowledge. When mptutil is
executed, and a SAS HBA is in any state other than ready or operational, mptutil immediately
performs a firmware download boot. The firmware provided by you to do the firmware download
boot is immediately flashed after the firmware download boot has completed. mptutil does this
because the firmware only moves to the operational state if it is running from flash and not memory.
Operational state is needed to do everything else provided in the utility.

Flashing BIOS and EFI Driver on the First Controller

To update the EFI driver on the first controller, follow these steps:
1. At the fs0:\> prompt, enter mptutil -o -g <Bios_File> <EFI_driver_file> -c
0.
2. At the fs0:\> prompt, enter reset.
The filename is optional and you are prompted for a filename if omitted.

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Viewing the VPD Information for EFI Driver and RISC Firmware

To view the VPD information for the EFI driver and RISC firmware, enter mptutil -o -vpd -c
0 at the fs0:\> prompt.

EFI Commands

To configure an Integrated Mirror (IM) Array on the SAS Controller, use the following EFI commands:
drvcfg(GUI interface)
cfggen(command line interface)
NOTE: If you are not using the IM functionality, do not follow these procedures.

DRVCFG Utility

To configure an IM on the SAS controller, follow these steps:
After I update firmware on my SAS HBA, why doesn't the version string change in
the menu?
The firmware you just flashed on the HBA does not run until a diagnostic reset occurs.
If you exit the utility and reenter it, the version string is updated.
This image does not contain a valid nvdata when I try to flash the firmware, why?
You are expected to concatenate a proper nvdata image on to the firmware.
mptutil keeps you from flashing an image without one. To concatenate nvdata
and firmware you need to run the mptutil -o -d
64it__l.fw,sas106x.dat,output.fw command. .
64it__l.fw is the firmware image without a nvdata image
sas106x.dat is the nvdata image. This file depends on the type or revision
of HBA on which the firmware is used
output.fw is the name of the file created with the firmware and nvdata
concatenated. This concatenated image can be used for all boards of this type
or revision.
How do I program multiple cards in a system from the command line?
mptutil (EFI) does not support this.
Can I program a new flash and option ROM in the same command line argument?
Yes. Run the mptutil -f <firmware_name> -b <option_rom_name>
command.
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