An issue has been identified with the Boot Code v1.12 of the SCSI backplane firmware v1.08 used for Intel Server Chassis SR1400 and SR2400. While attempting to perform a SCSI backplane firmware update on the SR1400 SCSI backplane with the PBA number C53570-405 or the SR2400 SCSI backplanes with the PBA number C53575-405 or C53575-406, which are programmed with the SCSI backplane firmware v1.08 and Boot Code v1.12, some SCSI backplanes might fail to complete the update process. This will cause the Operational Code of the SCSI backplane firmware to be partially updated and leave the SCSI backplane in an undetermined state. Based on the testing result, the firmware update failure rate is about 5%.

ONLY the SR1400 SCSI backplanes with the PBA number C53570-405 and the SR2400 SCSI backplanes with the PBA number C53575-405 or C53575-406 are affected by this issue. All the SR1400/SR2400 SCSI backplanes with the PBA revision -404 or earlier, are NOT affected by this issue.

Your system will NOT be impacted if:
You do NOT attempt to perform a SCSI backplane firmware update.
You attempt to perform a SCSI backplane firmware update and successfully complete the update process.

Your system may be impacted if:
You attempt to perform a SCSI backplane firmware update and fail to complete the update process.

	Technical Advisory 0837-2 [PDF]
	File Name: TA08372.pdf     Size: 23,139 bytes     Date: December 2006     File Revision: TA-0837-2

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This applies to:

Intel® Server Board SE7520JR2 Intel® Server Chassis SR1400 Intel® Server Chassis SR2400 Intel® Server System SR1400SYS Intel® Server System SR2400SYS Intel® Server System SR2400SYSD2