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Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2009 15:12:37 -0800
From: Andrew Sharp <andy.sharp@onstor.com>
To: Brian Stark <brian.stark@onstor.com>
Cc: Rich LaReau <richard.lareau@onstor.com>, Ben Piela
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Subject: Re: Cougar with Two prom versions
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"I screwed up."

Since my memory obviously isn't up to it, I shall refrain from
answering questions about the PROM from now on ~:^)

On Wed, 4 Feb 2009 13:12:15 -0800 Brian Stark <brian.stark@onstor.com>
wrote:

> PROM release 1.0.9 has nothing that is deemed to be 'must-fix' and
> therefore we did not been push 1.0.9 to the field on machines that
> had 1.0.8.
> 
> We recently released 1.0.10 PROMs, which is what Ops is currently
> shipping on new machines.  This has the memory configuration changes
> that Andy referred to, although these changes are not being pushed to
> the field at this point.
> 
> In summary, PROM version 1.0.8, 1.0.9, and 1.0.10 are all ok for use
> in the field.
> 
> 
> Brian
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andy Sharp 
> Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2009 12:49 PM
> To: Rich LaReau
> Cc: Ben Piela; dl-cstech; Paul Negus
> Subject: Re: Cougar with Two prom versions
> 
> I don't think it's that simple.  We need to get to the bottom of the
> story with this board.  There are memory configuration changes in
> 1.0.9 for the 1480s that should be used.  Then there is also the
> matter of the link speed of the management ethernet ports.  There's
> probably others I don't remember.
> 
> On Wed, 4 Feb 2009 12:35:00 -0800 Rich LaReau
> <richard.lareau@onstor.com> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Sandrine reports that there is no problem running the two versions
> > together.  (They are two 1U Cougars.)  Whether the 1.08 code should
> > be upgraded to 1.09 depends on which fixes are required.
> > 
> > Rich 
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Andy Sharp 
> > Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2009 12:29 PM
> > To: Ben Piela
> > Cc: Rich LaReau; dl-cstech; Paul Negus
> > Subject: Re: Cougar with Two prom versions
> > 
> > That's pretty bizarre, I don't actually remember that we released a
> > 1.0.8 prom version, but there is very important stuff in 1.0.9 that
> > they should have, in the TXRX and FP prom images as well as the SSC
> > prom image. So they should all have 1.0.9.  I'm hard pressed to
> > figure how this happened exactly.  Perhaps the whole motherboard is
> > down rev'd.  I would check with Ops to see if you can figure that
> > out by the serial number.
> > 
> > CC'ing Paul.
> > 
> > 
> > On Wed, 4 Feb 2009 12:20:29 -0800 Ben Piela <ben.piela@onstor.com>
> > wrote:
> > 
> > > Any Cougar masters out there that might have an answer for this or
> > > at least an informed opinion?  The customer has a cougar 3310 HA
> > > pair, one node has Cougar prom version 1.0.9 and the other has
> > > 1.0.8.
> > > 
> > > Thanks much.
> > > 
> > > Ben Piela
> > > ben.piela@onstor.com
> > > Mobile: (201) 819-9537
> > > Office: (201) 251-1167
> > > 
> > > From: Rich LaReau
> > > Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2009 1:06 PM
> > > To: dl-cstech
> > > Subject: Cougar with Two prom versions
> > > 
> > > Ben's got a Cougar running two different prom versions on the
> > > blades. Is that a problem?
> > > 
> > > Rich
> > > 
> > > ________________________________
> > > From: Ben Piela
> > > Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2009 9:55 AM
> > > To: Rich LaReau
> > > Subject: Case 11161 - FCHS
> > > Rich,
> > > 
> > > I finished working with Victor Chan in upgrading their Cougar
> > > cluster to 4.0.1.0, the GA release.  Afterwards, I noticed that
> > > the two nodes were running at a different version of the prom.
> > > One node is at 1.0.8 and one is at 1.0.9.  Not sure how this
> > > happened. Can something bad happen because of this?
> > > 
> > > Thanks,
> > > 
> > > [cid:image001.gif@01C986DC.1CEEA9E0]
> > > Ben Piela
> > > Senior Sales Engineer
> > > 
> > > ONStor, Inc.
> > > office: 201.251.1167
> > > fax: 201.445.2820
> > > mobile: 201.819.9537
> > > ben.piela@onstor.com<mailto:ben.piela@onstor.com>
> > > http://www.onstor.com<http://www.onstor.com/>
> > > 
