SOFTPAQ NUMBER:  SP30842
PART NUMBER:  N/A
FILE NAME:  SP30842.EXE
TITLE:  Systems ROMPaq Firmware Upgrade Diskette for HP ProLiant
        DL320 G3 Servers.

VERSION:  4.02A

LANGUAGE:  English

CATEGORY:  ROMPaqs

DIVISIONS:  Systems

PRODUCTS AFFECTED:  HP ProLiant DL320 G3

OPERATING SYSTEM:  ALL

SYSTEM CONFIGURATION:  N/A

PREREQUISITE:  N/A

EFFECTIVE DATE:  July 15, 2005

ELECTRONIC DISTRIBUTION ALLOWED:  Yes

SOFTPAQ UTILITY VERSION: 2.X

SUPERSEDES:  SP30105

DESCRIPTION:   This release provides updated system ROM images
               for the latest maintenance releases of HP ProLiant
               DL320 G3 Servers.


New Features -


        ProLiant DL320 G3 ROM D18 (06/01/2005)
        ============================================

               1) Updated the ROM-Based Virtual Install Disk driver for the LSI 
		   U320 SCSI Controller.  This driver allows installations of 
		   Microsoft Windows 2003 32-bit and Windows 2003 64-bit x86 
		   without requiring the customer to provide a driver via a 
		   floppy disk or other means. 
		   
		   This System ROM includes the following versions of the 
		   SCSI Controller drivers:

		     symmpi.sys - 1.10.1.0 05/26/2004 (LSI Logic Ultra320 SCSI) 
		     for 32-bit x86 editions of Microsoft Windows Server 2003.

		     aarich.sys - 5.2.3790.0 11/05/2004 (Adaptec Embedded SATA RAID) 
		     for 32-bit x86 editions of Microsoft Windows Server 2003.

		2) Added support for HP's One-Button Disaster Recovery (OBDR) 
		   solution with HP's new USB tape drives, including the 
		   StorageWorks DAT 40 and StorageWorks DAT 72 USB tape drives.
		   This support can be enabled when a USB Tape Drive is manually 
		   placed in OBDR mode or the user selects OBDR support during 
		   POST by pressing F8 when prompted.


           
Problems Fixed -


        ProLiant DL320 G3 ROM D18 (06/01/2005)
        ============================================

                   1) Added RBSU option to resolve issues with certain PCI-Express 
		   cards which may result in an NMI or Windows blue screen in 
		   inappropriate instances. The issue arises over the 
		   interpretation of the specification governing PCI-Express. 
		   Different PCI-Express cards interpret certain error 
		   functionality differently. The specification governing 
		   PCI-Express will be clarified in a future revision. Legacy 
		   PCI SERR is enabled by default. If the installation of a 
		   PCI-Express card results in an unexpected NMI or blue screen, 
		   modifying this option may address the issue if there are 
		   no issues with the PCI-Express card. 
		   		   
		2) Updated to improve performance for certain PCI-33 and 
		   PCI-66 expansion cards. This ROM will improve performance 
		   for PCI expansion cards that perform burst memory reads from 
		   system memory. This does not affect performance of PCI-X 
		   or PCI-Express expansion cards. The modifications to this 
		   System ROM version are known to improve performance for PCI 
		   expansion cards utilizing the Intel i960 RD chipset, the 
		   AMCC PCI MatchMaker chipset, and the PLX PCI9656-BA66BI 
		   Chipset.   
	       
		3) Updated to work-around issue with PCI and PCI-X cards that 
		   do not retry delayed transactions within the appropriate 
		   amount of time. This condition was resulting in an NMI and 
		   bluescreen under Microsoft Windows operating systems.
		   This issue was seen with the Stratis MPEG-2 Decoder PCI 
		   Card. The issue would occur with any PCI card utilizing 
		   the Phillips SAA7146AH PCI-PCI Bridge.
		
		4) Updated to resolve issue where the Broadcom PXE Option ROM 
		   did not use the proper Universal Unique ID. This will not 
		   result in any issues unless a specific UUID is required. 
		   If the PXE server is configured to only download images to 
		   servers with specific UUIDs, then the PXE installation will 
		   not work properly if the UUID the PXE Option ROM is using 
		   does not match the one configured on the PXE server.






HOW TO USE:

1.  Obtain a formatted 1.44 MB diskette.

2.  Download the SoftPaq to a directory on your hard drive and change to that directory.
The file that is downloaded is SP30842.EXE.

3.  From that drive and directory, execute the SoftPaq file:
SP30842 [ENTER]
You will be prompted to place the formatted 1.44 MB diskette into a diskette drive to
create diskette.

4.  After the diskette is created, you may delete the downloaded file
SP30842.EXE if you wish.

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