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.
2.
To update the firmware on the controller, use
saupdate UPDATE
:
•
To update a single enclosure, use this command:
saupdate UPDATE <seg:bus:dev:func:encl_index> <firmware_file>
For example, to update the enclosure at segment 0, bus 8, device 0, function 0, index
2 with the firmware file
VWG2_206.S3
:
fs0:\EFI\TOOLS> saupdate UPDATE 0:8:0:0:2 VWG2_206.S3
************************************************************************
Smart Array Offline Firmware Update Utility
Version 2.07.09.02
(C) Copyright 2006 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
************************************************************************
Updating Enclosure in Seg: 0, Bus: 8, Dev: 0, Func: 0, Index: 2
Sending Image Chunk No: 117 of 117
Activating firmware now, this may take several minutes.
Retrieving firmware version, this may take several minutes.
Current Enclosure Firmware version is 2.06
•
To update all attached enclosures, use this command:
saupdate UPDATE <seg:bus:dev:func> all_encl <firmware_file>
Verifying the firmware update
1.
After updating the firmware, cycle the power on the system and on any external JBODS
connected to the system.
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Installing the controller
