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SERVSWITCH™ AFFINITY
What you do now depends on whether the download succeeds or fails:
If something goes wrong during file transmission,
you might receive an error message
advising you that a “checksum error,” “record error,” or “data error” has been
detected. This message will be followed by:
Receive failed
Try again Y/N
Error messages may be caused by any of these problems:
• Corrupted firmware-upgrade file
• Loose, broken, or defective RS-232 cable
• RS-232 protocol not configured correctly
• Bad transmit or receive levels
• Hardware problem on transmit or receive side
Press “Y” and then [Enter] to try again, and you will be returned to the initial
message, at which point you can resend the file:
Waiting for file...
Or press “N” and then [Enter] and the prompt “Hit enter to boot” will appear.
Press the [Enter] key to launch the Affinity’s diagnostics with the Port Card’s
firmware unchanged.
If reprogramming seems to succeed,
the procedure is finished if you’re using a single
Affinity with only that one Port Card installed in it. But if you’re using a
daisychained Affinity system or even a single Affinity with more than one card in it,
you
must
use option 4 or 5 of the serial options menu to copy the new firmware to
the other Port Cards in your Affinity system, as described in
Section 7.2.4
. (If you
leave different versions of these programs running on different Port Cards in your
Affinity system, the system will probably malfunction, and to fix it you’ll have to
redownload and distribute the firmware anyway.)
Once you’ve copied the new firmware throughout the system, restart the Affinity
unit(s) (see
Section 7.2.7
) and watch the power-up diagnostic screen (see
Section 3.5.1
) to make sure that the “Kernel revision” and/or “Program revision”
now match the revision number of the file(s) you just downloaded. Then test how
the system performs. If it seems to behave properly, you’re in business. (And you
can continue configuring the Port Card if you need to.)