Emulex EMULEX User Manual

emlxadm> get_boot_rev

Firmware revision: LP10000DC-S 5.01a4 

Downloads the specified boot image file to the HBA.

Example:

emlxadm> download_boot TL501A4.PRG

Image Components: REL type   size=143416
    DWC file:       BOOT: version=03845054, 5.01a4

Current: Boot: 5.01a2
New:     Boot: 5.01a4   143416 (0x23038) bytes

Are you sure you want to download this image? (y or n): y

Downloading...

Done.

Returns the byte size of the HBA's firmware core dump buffer.

Example:

emlxadm> get_dump_size

Size: 256 (0x100) bytes

Forces the HBA to perform a firmware core dump to the core dump buffer.

Example:

emlxadm> force_dump

Done.

Returns a copy of the HBA's firmware core dump buffer to the specified file in the specified text (-t) or 
binary (-b) format.

Example:

emlxadm> get_dump -t mydump.txt

Done.

Following is an example of the text file created by this operation. The binary version of the file has the 
binary pattern indicated without the column or row labels and white spaces.

mydump.txt

           00 01 02 03   04 05 06 07   08 09 0A 0B   0C 0D 0E 0F
---------------------------------------------------------------- 
00000000:  00 01 02 03   04 05 06 07   08 09 0a 0b   0c 0d 0e 0f 
00000010:  10 11 12 13   14 15 16 17   18 19 1a 1b   1c 1d 1e 1f 
00000020:  20 21 22 23   24 25 26 27   28 29 2a 2b   2c 2d 2e 2f 

Note: If the file name is not provided, the program attempts to identify the adapter model, 

then downloads a default boot image file, if one is available.