Installing Sun Fire V890 Fc-Al Backplane Firmware - Sun Microsystems Sun Fire V890 Product Notes

Note – All Sun Fire V890 disk drives that are installed at the factory, shipped as
customer-installable options, or installed as field-replaceable units (FRUs) meet the
minimum firmware revision levels.
Installing Sun Fire V890 FC-AL Backplane
Firmware
In the unlikely event that the firmware on a Sun Fire V890 FC-AL backplane
becomes corrupted, you can use a backup image to flash update the backplane with
its original firmware. The flash update procedure is performed with the Solaris
luxadm utility and is described below.
Before you can flash update the backplane firmware, you need to download the
firmware image from the SunSolve Online web site to the Sun Fire V890 system disk.
The latest version of the backplane firmware is always available on the SunSolve
Online web site at http://sunsolve.sun.com. The patch that contains the
backplane firmware is patch ID 117814-01 (or later). To install the firmware from the
SunSolve web site, see the instructions in the README file provided with the
firmware image.
Note – A version of FC-AL backplane firmware for the Sun Fire V880 is included on
the Solaris Supplement CD. Do not install this version of the firmware on the Sun
Fire V890.
To install the firmware, use the following procedure.
Note – After beginning the flash update process in Step 3, you must wait at least 15
minutes after the superuser prompt appears for the update process to complete.
While the server is updating the flash PROM, it might appear as though little or no
activity is occurring on the server. Do not attempt any other operations until you
verify that the update process has completed.
1. Become superuser and reboot your system into single-user mode.
# reboot -- -s
2. Turn the front panel keyswitch to the Unlocked position.
You need to move the keyswitch to the Unlocked position before you can program
the server Flash PROMs.
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