5.
Review the installation instructions and release notes on the download page.
6.
Download the firmware.
7.
To install the firmware update, follow the procedures supplied with the update package.
Updating the controller firmware
NOTE:
The following is a generic procedure to update firmware from the EFI shell. HP recommends
that you follow the procedures supplied with the update package to install the firmware update.
To update the firmware image on the controller, use
saupdate
from the EFI Shell.
To update the controller firmware with
saupdate
:
1.
Prepare to run
saupdate
from the Offline Diagnostics CD or the EFI partition:
•
To run
saupdate
from the Offline Diagnostic CD:
a.
Download the firmware and copy it to the EFI partition.
b.
Place the Offline Diagnostic CD containing
saupdate.efi
in the CD drive before
booting the system.
c.
Boot the system to the EFI Shell prompt.
d.
Locate the
cdrom
entry in the list of mapped devices, and change to the device by
entering its associated
fs
number (for example,
fs0
) under EFI Shell prompt.
e.
If the EFI utility and firmware image files are not located in the root directory, move
to the directory where these files are located, for example:
fs0:\> cd \EFI\HP\TOOLS\IO_CARDS\SmartArray
•
To run
saupdate
from the EFI partition:
a.
Download the Smart Array EFI update utility
saupdate.efi
and copy it to the EFI
partition.
b.
Download the firmware and copy it to the EFI partition.
c.
Boot the system to the EFI Shell and change directories to the EFI partition.
IMPORTANT:
The firmware image file and
saupdate.efi
must be located in the same
directory. If they are not, copy them to the EFI partition and run the
saupdate
from there.
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