The RPM file provided on this web site is only for use when installing firmware on a pSeries p5 Server using the AIX or Linux Operating System on a server without an HMC attached.
Instructions for unpacking and installing firmware on a server without an HMC attached can be found at http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/eserver/
Note: If you only want to update your system microcode and no other microcode, you can download this p5 and i5 iso image and create a CD-ROM to use with your HMC. If your HMC is internet connected, we recommend you update microcode using the Internet connection.
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Select your country, then under Hardware select your language.
In the left-hand panel, select
=> Service and support
=> Customer service and support
=> Getting fixes
=> Server firmware fixes
=> Scenario: Get firmware fixes with an HMC
| 01SF220_041_041 | |||
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| Base 01SF220_041_041 | |||
| Defect | Description | Conclusion | Circumvention |
| 9A77028 | New firmware release | New functions added | N/A |
| 01SF220_043_043 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Base 01SF220_041_041 | |||
| Defect | Description | Conclusion | Circumvention |
| MB00573 | Hmc may not connect to system. | Licensed Internal Code Changed | None. |
| MB00576 | System terminating with a A700xxxx error code after a reset/reload of the service processor. | Removed erroneous reject of host intiated reset/reload. | None. |
| MB00575 | Increase resources in order to allow the use of more I/O adapters in a large configuration. | Increase partiton resources. | None. |
| 01SF220_044_044 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Base 01SF220_043_043 | |||
| Defect | Description | Conclusion | Circumvention |
| MB00579 | Dynamic memory remove from a partition fails. | The code was incorrectly indicating that memory was
unavailable for dynamic removal. The code has been changed to correctly indicate when memory is available for dynamic removal. |
None. |
| MB00580 | Concurrent replace of an IOP fails. | The code was not properly deallocating hypervisor resources
belonging to the I/O resource being removed from the system. The code has been corrected. |
None. |
| MB00581 | A logical partition exhibits time-of-day drift across a system IPL. | Problem fixed in hypervisor code. | None. |
| MB00582 | Reserve Processors for Capacity On Demand are supposed to be idle until called upon for partition workloads. In some cases, all the reserved processors were put into use right away when they were not needed. | The algorithm for deciding when the line of usage got far enough into the Reserve Processor capabilities was not accurate enough. | None. |
| MB00583 | A Trial CoD activation may be accepted while there are unreturned Trial resources. |
Trial activation will not be allowed while there are unreturned Trial resources of the same resource type. | None. |
| MB00584 | CoD history log entries are not being produced when Trial CoD
expiration results in unreturned resources or when unreturned Trial or On/Off resources have all been reclaimed. |
CoD history log entries will be produced when Trial CoD expiration results in unreturned resources or when unreturned Trial or On/Off resources have all been reclaimed. |
None. |
| MB00585 | Confirmation of a Capacity on Demand code for Trial resources may not work correctly depending on the number of available resources for conversion to Trial resources. |
The system hypervisor will be fixed to correctly handle CoD Trial resource confirmation requests. |
None. |
| MB00586 | After replacement of card, unreturned CoD resources were reported as unreturned Trial instead of unreturned On/Off. | When CoD resources become unreturned for reasons other than
Trial CoD expiration, they will be treated as unreturned On/Off CoD resources. |
None. |
| MB00587 | HMC displayed fields for Capacity on Demand memory amounts total to more memory than is installed in the server. | Firmware is updated to correctly pass to the HMC for display the Capacity on Demand memory amounts. | None. |
| MB00588 | Entering an On/Off CoD termination code while there were unreturned On/Off CoD resources resulted in an extended error code of 0x'200A', which means that an On/Off request is active, rather than an error code of 0x'2018', which means the key failed because of unreturned resources. | The failure code will be changed to indicate when a code is rejected due to unreturned resources. | None. |
| MB00589 | After activation and expiration of On/Off Processor resources, the entitled number of resources that LPAR should allow is not correct. | The calcluations done after expiration of the On/Off Processor requests, as this testcase represented, were inaccurate. This inaccuracy was corrected and now the reported useable resource numbers are correctly being sent to the LPAR componentry. | None. |
| MB00593 | After a PCI bus error occurs that would require the PCI bus to be reset and recovered, about 2 seconds after the error occur, other IO error events may be received by the partition. | Code has been fixed to remove the erroneous IO error events while the PCI bus is being recovered. | None. |
| MB00594 | Error log ID not the same for error entries fromt he same I/O error. | Problem has been fixed so error entries due to the same error will get the same error log ID. | None. |
| MB00595 | Hardware recovery on an AIX or LINUX system does not always re-enable interrups. Leaving the devices in a non-functional state. | Device recovery now restores devices to full function. | None. |
| MB00596 | Tower concurrent maintenence and DLPAR of slot holding an IOP is failing. | The DLPAR and Tower concurrent maintenence operations succeed with this fix. |
None. |
| MB00597 | The system may become unresponsive. | The Licensed Internal Code will be changed so that the system will not become unresponsive. |
None. |
| MB00590 | Error adding a cpu. | Need to change the cache building scheme in firmware. | None. |
| MB00591 | VSCSIDisk not showing up. | Changed calculation and the drives now appear. | None. |
| MB00592 | DIAG CD not IPLing in Slave CD/DVD Slot. | Fixed. | None. |
| 01SF220_045_045 Impact: Function Severity: Hiper | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Base 01SF220_044_044 | |||
| Defect | Description | Conclusion | Circumvention |
| MB00620 | Error logs are being incorrectly created during firmware downloads to I/O towers. | Changed the error logs to informational logs only. | N/A |
| 01SF220_046_046 Impact: Usability Severity: Hiper | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Base 01SF220_045_045 | |||
| Defect | Description | Conclusion | Circumvention |
| MB00624 | If an ethernet cable is not plugged into the service processor port, the service processor may not reach standby because the webserver dies causing the service processor to reboot and then hang. | The service processor will configure the adapter even if the network ethernet cable is not plugged in for any port. | Take a regular ethernet cable and connect it in a loop from HMC1 port to HMC2 port of the service processor |
| 01SF220_048_048 Impact: Function Severity: Attention | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Base 01SF220_047_047 | |||
| Defect | Description | Conclusion | Circumvention |
| 475379 | B181F7BB error running mixed processors | System configurations with 1.9Ghz processors may have a mix of High voltage and nominal voltage processors in the same system. Code updated to support this configuration. | Do not mix high and nominal voltage processors in the same system. |
| 472934 | B1818A09 after power problem | Code bug fixed to not report erroneous error. | N/A |
| 01SF220_049_049 Impact: Function Severity: Hiper | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Base 01SF220_048_048 | |||
| Defect | Description | Conclusion | Circumvention |
| MB00608 | Incorrect processor time base frequency possible on RPA partitions. |
Fixed reported processor time based frequency for RPA partitions | None. |
| MB00611 | The IPL of a system connected in an HSL Opticonnect cluster
may hang at SRCC7004080. |
The code was getting into a deadlock state during clustering initialization. The Licensed Internal Code has been corrected to avoid this deadlock. | None. |
| MB00612 | Adapter descriptions displayed on HMC are incorrect after resources are physically moved. | Hypervisor logic will be more sensitive to IO resource changes. | None. |
| MB00613 | System profile fails to activate | Hypervisor memory validation is not accounting for memory currently assigned to the partition. | None. |
| MB00614 | Reserve Processor request gets started successfully but the processors are not present in the Shared Pool. | With this corrective package, Reserve Processors are fully integrated into the Shared Pool so their capacity can be accessed as expected. | None. |
| MB00615 | Systems participating in an HSL Opticonnect cluster with 3 systems on the same HSL ring may not connect. | Licensed Interal Code Changed | None. |
| MB00618 | Resolved potential cause for system hang at checkpoint C7004078 when HSL Opticonnect starts. | Licensed Internal Code Changed | None. |
| MB00629 | Corrected truncated serial number information displayed by lscfg command for I/O drawers or towers. | Licensed Internal Code Changed | None. |
| MB00630 | Profile activation may fail when changing partition max memory. | Licensed Internal Code Changed | None. |
| MB00631 | The server connection status displayed by the Server and Partition Management utility on the Hardware Management Console goes to Incomplete after a concurrent tower move. |
The server connection status displayed by the Server and Partition Management utility on the Hardware Management Console will not go to Incomplete after a concurrent tower move. |
None. |
| MB00634 | A deadlock can occur causing console to not be able to comunicate with system. | Licensed Internal Code Changed | None. |
| MB00635 | Opticonnect HSL links are not marked failed correctly when an optical cable is removed. | Code updated to correctly mark links failed. | None. |
| MB00636 | Corrected potential cause for IPL hang at checkpoint C700406E | Licensed Internal Code Changed | None. |
| MB00639 | Reserve CoD menus incorrectly display maximum number of processors supported instead of number which are physically installed | Reserve CoD was using the maximum possible processors when calculating the number allowed to be activated. It has been changed to use the actual installed processors, which will produce results consistent with the number shown for available processors. | None. |
| MB00652 | Corrected potential cause for HMC Console going to incomplete state. | Licensed Internal Code Changed | None. |
| MB00659 | Advanced POWER Virtualization: Current Shared Procs allowed to Violate Min and Max rules. | Licensed Internal Code Changed | None. |
| MB00660 | OptiConnect High-Speed link (HSL) speeds may be set incorrectly. | Licensed Internal Code updated to correctly initialize HSL links. | None. |
| MB00661 | OptiConnect High-Speed link (HSL) links fail to recover after cable replugged | Licensed Internal Code updated to properly recover HSL links. | None. |
| MB00603 | IBM 4758 PCI Cryptographic Coprocessor does not identify in which slot is is physically plugged. | Licensed Internal Code Changed | None. |
| MB00605 | Linux partition was failed to boot with error BA210000. | Licensed Internal Code Changed | None. |
| MB00638 | Linux partitions boot slowly from Virtual SCSI. | Licensed Internal Code Changed | None. |
| 471504 | UPS detection is intermittent | Licensed Internal Code Changed | None. |
| 469391 | Cannot connect to ASM menus via network interface | Licensed Internal Code Changed | Reboot the service processor (FSP) |
| 471583 | Improved FRU isolation for error B181FB53 | Added DIMM replacement procedure. | None. |
| 471703 | B181F23E on IPL with missing SMP cable | Licensed Internal Code changed to Allow system to IPL with only the first node present. | None. |
| 472017 | ASM TTY interface hangs when web interface has non-English language selected | Licensed Internal Code Changed | Set web interface to English. |
| 475594 | Serial ports not functional of p570 systems equipped with multiple processor drawers (8, 12 and 16 way systems) | Licensed Internal Code Changed | Access ASM via HMC or graphics adapter. |
| 474917 | Corrected cause for false cooling fan faults when system in standby. (Affects 9111 systems only) | Licensed Internal Code Changed | None. |
| 473413 | Improved FRU isolation for error B123E500 | Licensed Internal Code Changed | None. |
| 01SF220_050_050 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Base 01SF220_049_049 | |||
| Defect | Description | Conclusion | Circumvention |
| MB00679 | IPL fails with an SRC of B1xxF660. | Licensed internal code changed | Problem is intermittent so a reboot may be successful, problem will not affect runtime operation. |
| MB00680 | Error code B155B058 may incorrectly tell you to replace the FSP | Added code so that error will point to the correct piece of hardware to replace. | Remove or swap out any recent hardware added to the system. |
| MB00682 | Premature temperature warnings may be posted. |
Thresholds for temperature warnings are being raised to account for differences in sensor locations. | N/A |
| MB00653 | IPLing one partition participating in HSL Opticonnect causes HSL Opticonnect on other partitions to fail. | Licensed internal code changed | None. |
| MB00672 | Tasks may loop processing machine check interrupts. | Licensed internal code changed | None. |
| MB00674 | Vital product data in I/O drawers programmed by legacy pSeries hardware is not recognized by current hardware. | Licensed internal code changed | None. |
| MB00675 | HMC went into a no connect state after attempting to re-IPL partition. | Licensed internal code changed | None. |
| MB00676 | System does not recover following a reset/reload | Licensed internal code changed | None. |
| MB00678 | System fails with SRCB181E500 after tower switch occurrs. | Code updated to correctly complete tower switch. | None. |
| 01SF220_051_051 Impact: Function Severity: Hiper | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Base 01SF220_050_050 | |||
| Defect | Description | Conclusion | Circumvention |
| MB00686 | Partition fails to reboot following snoop string detection | Licensed internal code changed. | Reboot system using ASMI interface. |
| MB00687 | A timing problem as been identified in the power supply. A 11007120 service code may be posted. | Licensed internal code changed | N/A |
| MB00688 | SRCB201E0AA found in platform error log | Serial port handling code may close bad file descriptor | N/A |
| MB00694 | The Utility Failure detection on may not report correctly to the host partitions. | Licensed internal code changed | N/A |
| MB00693 | Power code may fail to allow the system to initialize. | Licensed internal code changed | None. |