Old firmware needed!

[swortsoul]

We're upgrading the firmware on our AIX machines. We have 2 7017 S85's, a 7026-6H1 and a 7026-H80.

We are going to upgrade the OS to AIX 5.2, so we need to update teh firmware. Of course, we didn't keep the old binaries of the firmware from before. We don't need it yet, but to be safe, I'd like to have a copy of it.

So, does anyone have the system firmware for these machines that I could get a copy of? IBM doesn't keep old firmware (so I'm told).

Specifically, they are:

7026's CM030829
7017's System: 20030731
7017's Service: 20030731

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks
Tim

 

[spamly]

Don't 7017's keep two copies of the firmware on the sysplaner board? You can boot to firmware "A" or "B". During upgrades, you upgrade one, boot to it, test it, upgrade the other, and then boot it the other.

I had to go through this when I upgraded my 7017 this summer.

 

[swortsoul]

Yes they do, if you promote the firmware before deleting the files. Apparently, for the promotion, you need a file created during the original update. You can't just promote B to A without having that file.

I was new to AIX when I did the original firmware update. I know better now.

Anyone else have them?

Thanks

 

[swortsoul]

Well, I just worked this out, and thought anyone else looking at this would want to know too.

We didn't promote the firmware to the A side on the 7017's. We then deleted the firmware files, which includes promotion.img (or something similar). Apparently, the promotion.img file you get with the new firmware is the same as the old one, so you can use it to promote your old firmware over.

Also, I didn't think you could choose which side to apply the new firmware update. I thought it automatically applied it to B, which you then promoted to A. If that's not the case, then we could have done what spamly suggested.

Thanks for the reply. We should be good from here.