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PA-4C-E 1-Port High-Performance ESCON Channel Port Adapter Installation and Configuration
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Configuring the HP ESCON PA
Step 4
Reconfigure the router, as necessary, to use the HP ESCON PA microcode image stored in the Flash
memory card in slot 0 or slot 1, or in the SanDisk memory device in disk 0 or disk 1.
Step 5
Save your running configuration to a TFTP server, Flash memory, or SanDisk memory.
Step 6
Perform a microcode reload.
Configuring the HP ESCON PA Microcode
This section describes how to modify the startup configuration to load different microcode images at
startup, or to change existing configuration instructions and re-enable the system default.
At system startup or reload, the system loads a microcode image for each processor type. All processors
of the same type use the same microcode image; only one image for each type can load at startup. The
HP ESCON PA microcode image must be located on a Flash memory card or SanDisk memory device.
When you upgrade software or microcode by downloading new images onto a Flash memory card or
SanDisk memory device, you must configure the system to load the new microcode image at startup.
Otherwise, the system will continue to load the default image from the system or attempt to load any
previous image if it is still specified in the system configuration file.
Note
If you are running any image other than the default HP ESCON PA microcode and you want to upgrade
to a later version of Cisco IOS software and use the default HP ESCON PA microcode that comes with
that later Cisco IOS version, you must remove the microcode ecpa slot:filename statement from the
system configuration file. If you do not remove the microcode ecpa slot:filename statement from the
system configuration file, the Cisco IOS software will try to load the old version of the HP ESCON PA
microcode.
To instruct the system to load an HP ESCON PA microcode image other than the default at startup, use
the microcode ecpa slot:filename and the microcode reload configuration commands to add the
instructions to the configuration file.
To load a microcode image from a file stored on a Flash memory card, enter the show flash slot0: EXEC
command to display the Flash directory contents and verify the exact name of the file (xcpa28-1 is used
in this example):
Router> show flash
-#- ED --type-- --crc--- -seek-- nlen -length- -----date/time------ name
1 .. unknown CA94D289 20C18 13 2966 Sep 07 2000 09:07:07 ciscocert.pem
2 .D unknown 62000000 20C9C 9 1 Sep 18 2000 06:33:57 xcpa218-6
3 .D unknown 2B04BACB 94134 22 472086 Sep 18 2000 06:33:58 xcpa218-6_kernel_ecpa4
4 .D unknown 348776FF F9690 21 414940 Sep 18 2000 06:34:21 xcpa218-6_kernel_xcpa
5 .D unknown BC7BEC5D 1358B8 17 246184 Sep 18 2000 06:34:42 xcpa218-6_seg_802
6 .D unknown C09633A6 1BEFAC 18 562804 Sep 18 2000 06:34:55 xcpa218-6_seg_cmpc
7 .D unknown 0B58D705 1D6914 18 96488 Sep 18 2000 06:35:23 xcpa218-6_seg_csna
8 .D unknown 29DEAA84 24713C 17 460712 Sep 18 2000 06:35:28 xcpa218-6_seg_eca
9 .D unknown 95CADB93 25D904 21 91976 Sep 18 2000 06:35:51 xcpa218-6_seg_offload
10 .D unknown 82F8A3D6 26E670 17 68844 Sep 18 2000 06:35:56 xcpa218-6_seg_pca
11 .D unknown 7EECB670 272374 18 15492 Sep 18 2000 06:35:59 xcpa218-6_seg_push
12 .D unknown B4A58886 33C564 18 827760 Sep 18 2000 06:36:00 xcpa218-6_seg_sslc
13 .D unknown 73CB2859 363B90 19 161196 Sep 18 2000 06:36:41 xcpa218-6_seg_tcpip
14 .D unknown 0989F473 409EF0 20 680672 Sep 18 2000 06:36:49 xcpa218-6_seg_tn3270
15 .. unknown 62000000 409F74 9 1 Sep 18 2000 06:46:12 xcpa218-6
16 .. unknown 2B04BACB 47D40C 22 472086 Sep 18 2000 06:46:12 xcpa218-6_kernel_ecpa4
17 .. unknown 348776FF 4E2968 21 414940 Sep 18 2000 06:46:35 xcpa218-6_kernel_xcpa
