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Table 4–1: Planning Your Configuration (cont.)

To increase:

You can:

Disk availability

Mirror disks across shared buses.

Use a RAID array controller.

Shared storage capacity

Increase the number of shared buses.

Use a RAID array controller.

Increase disk size.

4.2 Obtaining the Firmware Release Notes

You may be required to update the system or SCSI controller firmware
during a TruCluster Server installation, so you may need the firmware
release notes.

You can obtain the firmware release notes from:

The Web at the following URL:

http://www.compaq.com/support/

Select Alpha Systems from the downloadable drivers &
utilities

menu. Then select the appropriate system.

The current Alpha Systems Firmware Update CD-ROM.

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Note

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To obtain the firmware release notes from the Firmware
Update Utility CD-ROM, your kernel must be configured for
the ISO 9660 Compact Disk File System (CDFS).

To obtain the release notes for the firmware update, follow these steps:

1.

At the console prompt, or using the system startup log if the Tru64
UNIX operating system is running, determine the drive number of
the CD-ROM.

2.

Boot the Tru64 UNIX operating system if it is not already running.

3.

Log in as root.

4.

Place the Alpha Systems Firmware Update CD-ROM applicable to
the Tru64 UNIX version installed (or to be installed) into the drive.

5.

Mount the CD-ROM as follows (/dev/disk/cdrom0c is used as an
example CD-ROM drive):

# mount -rt cdfs -o noversion /dev/disk/cdrom0cc /mnt

4–4 TruCluster Server System Configuration Using UltraSCSI Hardware