Release notes for IPF0609

• Overview
• New Features
• Defect Fixes
• Known Problems and Workarounds

Overview

The Offline Diagnostics Environment (ODE) is a platform that enables you to troubleshoot a system that is not booted to the operating system. You can use ODE to troubleshoot a system on which you cannot use the Online Diagnostics Tools. ODE is also useful for some types of testing in which it is not desirable to have to boot to the operating system first, as is often the case in manufacturing environment.

The IPF Offline Diagnostics and Utilities CD is a comprehensive offline diagnostic solution. The CD includes a suite of diagnostic tools belonging to the Offline Diagnostics Environment (ODE) plus a collection of other useful diagnostic utilities.

New Features

• Modified ODE to skip files having the following EFI attributes:
  
  • Directory
  • Hidden
  • System
  • Reserved

FCFUPDATE IODIAG

• Added support for AD331A, AD332A, AB378B, AB379B, AD300A, AD193A, AD194A, and 4051(32/60)B21.
  The AD193A and AD194A FC chip are new.

MEMDIAG

• Improved overall performance on large configuration systems.
• Added more detailed information on error reporting.

MOABDIAG

• The MOABDIAG tool is enhanced to report unexpected errors logged in CEC.

TITANDIAG

• Added support for ETD x8 card.

Defect Fixes

CIODIAG CIODIAG2

• JAGag00268
  Section 10, subtest 1 of the CIODIAG tool and section 26, subtest 1 of the CIODIAG2 tool may fail if a LAN cable is connected to the LAN controller. This issue is now fixed. The subsets are now skipped if the LAN cable connected.

CPUDIAG

• JAGaf99238
  The CPUDIAG tool hangs on a fully configured SD16B, SD32B, and SD64B system. This issue is now fixed.

COPYUTIL DFDUTIL MAPPER

• JAGaf99241
  The MAPPER tool displays the following error messages:
  Error: GetEnabledProcessorsInfo() return status= 5
  Looking for SCSI devices via LSI SPT device driver...
  This issue is now fixed.

ESCADIAG

• JAGag11527
  After running the Escadiag tool from a hard drive or from CD-ROM, other diagnostics tools cannot be loaded into ODE. This issue is now fixed.

ESCADIAG REODIAG

• JAGag06562
  The error message displayed by the ESCDIAG tool, when the I/O slots are open, is not clear. This issue is now fixed.

IODIAG

• JAGag10945
  Due to a bug in the EFI driver, running an Intel card that is a bood device disconnects the card from the LAN server. This issue is fixed. The IODIAG tool now skips diagnostics on the boot device.

MAPPER

• JAGag06850
  The MAPPER tool displays the same description for both DVD and DVD+rw. This issue is now fixed.

REODIAG

• JAGaf93668
  The rreg command results in a Machine Check Abort (MCA). This issue is now fixed.

Known Problems and Workarounds

CIODIAG2

• The CIODIAG2 tool must not be run without rebooting the machine, if an FTP script has been executed. Else, the LAN tests will generate a MCA.

COPYUTIL

• The COPYUTIL tool does not support the Agilent FC cards.

FCFUPDATE

• The Intel EFI driver files version 3.0.13 (intl_efi_b-t.frm, intl_efi_b-sx.frm, intl_efi.efi, and intl_efi_v.frm) for the HP Gigabit Ethernet adapters are removed from this release because they cannot perform a directed lanboot.

IODIAG

• To manually select and run section 3 for A9782A, A9784A, A6826A, and AB234B cards, users must know the command line interface of the Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI) shell command, drvdiag.
• Due to an EFI driver issue on the AB287A 10GigE adapter, section 2 of the IODIAG tool fails on the following servers:
  • rx8640 server
  • rx7640 server
  • SD16B server
  • SD32B server
  • SD64B server
  
  The AB287A 10GigE adapter is shipped with EFI driver version 1.1.3.0. On rx8640, rx7640, SD16B, SD32B, and SD64B servers, the EFI driver version 1.1.3.0 may cause section 2 of the IODIAG tool to fail. These failures occur while using the IODIAG tool from the following Offline Diagnostics CD media:
  • IPF0512
  • IPF0603
  • IPF0606
  • IPF0609
  
  The following error message is displayed:
  

  SECTION 002
     Running Extended Vendor Provided Test
  
     "Testing HP AB287A 10 GigE Lan Port @ Acpi(HWP0002,PNP0A03,2)/Pci(1|0).
  
        ASIC internal loop back test Fail
        Optical transponder internal loop back test Fail
     This IO port failed with EFI_DEVICE_ERROR"

  
  The error message does not indicate that the adapter is defective. To verify that the adapter is functional, follow the procedure described in the AB287A PCI-X 10 Gigabit Ethernet Card Installation Guide. Install the HP-UX driver. Use the link loop or the ping command to send packets to a remote system.
  Note that the failure of an IODIAG tool does not impact the functionality of the adapter.
  Update the EFI driver on the adapter. You can download the latest EFI Driver from the following Web site: http://www.hp.com, (Software & Driver Downloads) The information for downloading and flashing the EFI driver on the 10GigE adapter is available at the following Web site:
  http://www.hp.com, (Software & Driver Downloads)

PLUTODIAG

• This version assumes that the system has PLUTO 2.0 or later version.

REODIAG

• Sections 3, 5.11, and 5.12 does not run if the FTP or the PXE network driver is loaded. This behavior is by design.
• To run Sections 3, 5.11, and 5.12, reboot the cell without starting the FTP or PXE network driver.
• If Sections 3, 5.11 and 5.12 are run, FTP access will not work until the machine is rebooted.
• Sections 3.1 and 3.3 will not run if PXE network driver is loaded. This behavior is by design.
• REODIAG checks for VenMsg(0C8AFAFB-2A49-43AA-A449-5B2FD20AE6C8) when executed from RAMDRIVE. This value must be present for REODIAG to work from RAMDRIVE.
• ACPI must be set to the default configuration before running the PLUTODIAG tools.
  That is, fs0:>acpiconfig default The system must be reset for the change to occur.