Update disk drive firmware

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Showing results for. Search instead for. Did you mean:. Last reply by dwilliam62 Unsolved. TinTin68 Not applicable. Update Disk firmware PS Why does it say update firmware flashcard instead of drive?

So i aborted this and used the Storage Update Manager instead first select update drive firmware and than PS Series member, install update. CmdTool2 is an older utility that may also be used but only as a last resort. If you need to update a SATA drive, you will need to use a Linux distro and utilize the hdparm utility. Each of the aforementioned methods to update drives is discussed in greater detail below. Using StorCLI.

Using CmdTool2. Certain servers lack enclosure numbers and render this utility unusable, so a Dragon server with a Condado Beach RAID controller is recommended. Place the folder with the tool typically named CmdTool2 onto your desktop, then via Command Prompt navigate to the inside of the folder with:.

The desired firmware should be placed into the folder as well. From there,. To flash the drive with the desired firmware, run the command:. It will run for minutes, then exit with a 0. Updating Multiple Drives Automatically. The beauty that is batch scripts can be used to automatically update large quantities of drives without having to wait for the current drive to finish updating its firmware.

To do so, create a text document with notepad and with the first line change directories to the full location of CmdTool2 with:. Then enter in the drive firmware update command line-by-line.

An example batch script is attached. You can use either a windows or linux version of the utility, however it is preferred to use the Linux utility. Download a tar ball and follow the readmes to copy the file to your server. Disks are taken offline one at a time and then the firmware is updated on them. Similarly, background disk firmware updates are suspended for the duration of any reconstruction within the system.

Update disk firmware Availability: This command is available to cluster administrators at the advanced privilege level. Description Use the storage disk firmware update command to manually update firmware on all disks or a specified list of disks on a node. If you need to view the current firmware versions, use the storage disk show -fields firmware-revision command.

The firmware is automatically downloaded to those disks that report previous versions of firmware following a system boot or disk insertion. Note that: A manual download is a disruptive operation that makes disks inaccessible for up to five minutes after the download is started.

Network sessions that use the node must be terminated before running the storage disk firmware update command. The firmware is not automatically downloaded to the node's partner node in an HA pair. The firmware is not automatically downloaded to unowned disks on nodes configured to use software-based disk ownership. The bkg-firmware-update parameter controls how the automatic firmware download feature works: If the bkg-firmware-update parameter is set to off, then the storage disk firmware update will update the firmware on the drives in parallel.

If the bkg-firmware-update parameter is set to on, then the storage disk firmware update will update spares and filesystem disks in a nondisruptive manner in the background after boot.

Firmware downloads for these disks will be done sequentially by temporarily taking them offline one at a time for the duration of the download. Extension INF to create software device node to act as the independently targeted hardware for the firmware update package.

Many device types, however, do not allow a single physical device to enumerate more than one device node. In this case, use an extension INF that specifies the AddComponent directive to create a device node that can be targeted by Windows Update and install the firmware update driver on it.

The following snippet from an INF file shows how you can do this:. When installed, this INF creates the following device hierarchy:. A sample extension INF to create a new identity for drive firmware updates is provided below. For a software-enumerated component device to function, its parent must be started. The StorFwUpdate component does not perform any validation signature verification or decryption of the firmware binary payload. If this level of feature is required then hardware partners can write their own storage firmware update driver.

EXE as shown below. For more information, see Get-StorageFirmwareInformation. Move to the directory on your system that contains the driver extension package INF file. For example, type cd. Verify that the extension INF file contains the information for the drives you are updating.

As the new software node is created as a child of a boot critical device, a reboot is required to take effect. In Device Manager, select Disk drives , then expand the node and select the disk drive you have updated.