HBA Firmware Update Required

HBA Firmware Update Required

Abstract:

When an OS update delivers firmware down to HBA cards, it is occasionally required to perform a manual link reset to enable the firmware This process describes it.

Symptoms:

When  rebooting Solaris 11, one may see the following WARNING messages to the console or /var/adm/messages log

Boot device: disk  File and args:
SunOS Release 5.11 Version 11.3 64-bit
Copyright (c) 1983, 2018, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
WARNING: emlxs0: Firmware update required.
        (To trigger an update, a manual HBA or link reset using fcadm or emlxadm is required.)
WARNING: emlxs1: Firmware update required.
        (To trigger an update, a manual HBA or link reset using fcadm or emlxadm is required.)
WARNING: emlxs2: Firmware update required.
        (To trigger an update, a manual HBA or link reset using fcadm or emlxadm is required.)
WARNING: emlxs3: Firmware update required.
        (To trigger an update, a manual HBA or link reset using fcadm or emlxadm is required.)

Resolution:

Review the available devices to be reset
sun1801/root# fcinfo hba-port | grep "Device Name"
        OS Device Name: /dev/cfg/c5
        OS Device Name: /dev/cfg/c6
        OS Device Name: /dev/cfg/c10
        OS Device Name: /dev/cfg/c11

and perform the reset
sun1801/root# fcinfo hba-port | nawk '
 /Device Name/ { print "luxadm -e forcelip",$NF }' | ksh -x
+ luxadm -e forcelip /dev/cfg/c5
+ luxadm -e forcelip /dev/cfg/c6
+ luxadm -e forcelip /dev/cfg/c10
+ luxadm -e forcelip /dev/cfg/c11