"Pre-GA" RISC Systems - Free upgrade offer expiring

[Bob Shair]

karish at mindcraft.com (Chuck Karish) writes:

>Bob, is there a way to have AIX tell us what level our firmware is?
>It's annoying to have to open the box and peer around the memory
>boards to read the numbers on the ROS chips.
>-- 

lscfg -v will give you a verbose listing of your configuration
including many EC levels.  Whether that's sufficient to decide
whether a system needs upgrading, I can't say.
(I should include a disclaimer, like a good IBMer...
 I have nothing to do with this upgrade project, being just an
 ordinary field Systems Engineer whose experience is limited to
 working with my own customer.  But when that customer is the
 University of Illinois, one gets quite an education, and 
 access to usenet/internet news.  So I decided to publicize
 this here.)

        (output from lscfg -v   first few lines of hundreds)
INSTALLED RESOURCE LIST WITH VPD

The following resources are installed on your machine.
	
  sysunit0          00-00             RISC System/6000 System Unit
  sysplanar0        00-00             CPU Planar

        Part Number.................71F0044 
        EC Level....................C26251
        Processor Identification....00026821
        ROS Level and ID............IPLVER0.0 LVL0.00,71F0045 
        Processor Component ID......0000003100000032
        Device Specific.(Z0)........01250B
        Device Specific.(Z1)........022102
        Device Specific.(Z2)........032001
        Device Specific.(Z3)........042104
        Device Specific.(Z4)........1D2006
        Device Specific.(Z5)........FFFFFF
        Device Specific.(Z6)........0A3005
        Device Specific.(Z7)........2A3005
        Device Specific.(Z8)........FFFFFF
        Device Specific.(Z9)........FFFFFF
        ROS Level and ID............OCS(03000000) 
        ROS Level and ID............SEEDS(05000000) 

  fpa0              00-00             Floating Point Processor
  mem1              00-0B             16 MB Memory Card

        Device Specific.(Z3)........00
        EC Level....................00

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Bob Shair                          shair at chgvmic1.vnet.ibm.com
Scientific Computing Specialist    SHAIR at UIUCVMD (bitnet)
IBM Champaign