On Wed, 15 Jan 2003, Jim Mc Cay wrote:
#of cards software version Hardware Version DRAM Flash 2 4.1.11 19.0.0 131072 16384 1 4.1.72 19.0.0 65536 8192 1 4.2.32 19.0.0 131072 16384 1 5.3.107 23.0.0 131072 16384
Everytime I go to update these cards using 3Com's total control Manger software v8.2.6 the update gets to about 80% then stops, says it's completed.
I actually know what this is! I encountered it when going from 4.1.59 to 5.3.2. Does TCM say "Error: TFTP Access Violation?" I dug through the online archives and never found any conclusive responses to the people who posted this problem, but I recently figured it out. I kept trying to flash the card and getting stuck at 88%. I telnetted into the ARC and did "list files", and I eventually noticed that the file being uploaded to the flash, netserve.dmf, was always getting to EXACTLY 3 megabytes (3145728 bytes). Apparently this is the largest file size the older ARC software can handle. Version 5.3.x of the ARC code are around 3.4MB, so the older ARC OS can't tftp them. So, there are three solutions: You can upgrade first to a version that is smaller than 3MB, but doesn't have the filesize limit, and from there you can upgrade to the newest code. I didn't use this method, so I don't know what version qualifies--I'd guess 5.0.something. -OR- You can use a console cable to upload the code via Zmodem. -OR- You can set up a tftp server, and tell the boot PROM to tftp the software when the card is rebooted. This is what I did, and it worked. (If you have a console cable handy, you can use the menu that pops up while the ARC is booting. Otherwise you can telnet into the ARC and use the "set bootrom" commands to tell it what tftp server and filename to use.) Hope that's helpful. ____________________________________________________________________________ I. Dwayne Koonce E-mail: dwayne@txcyber.com Chief Network Administrator Phone: (979) 268-6800 Cybercom Corporation Fax: (979) 260-2652 ____________________________________________________________________________