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Solution Type Technical Instruction Sure Solution 1008396.1 : How to Identify Optical and Hard Disk Firmware Revisions for Checking of Known Issues
PreviouslyPublishedAs 211480 To discuss this information further with Oracle experts and industry peers, we encourage you to review, join or start a discussion in the My Oracle Support Community - Sun x86 Systems Description Checking for supported disk firmware revision and known issues.
Execute the following command to provide you with the firmware revision of your disks: # /usr/sbin/iostat -En The resulting output will be similar to the following for each storage media item installed on your platform. Output will very depending on platform type and configuration: c0t10d0 Soft Errors: 0 Hard Errors: 0 Transport Errors: 0 Vendor: SEAGATE Product: ST336607LSUN36G Revision: 0207 Serial No: 0248A0GKBM Size: 36.42GB <36420075008 bytes> Illegal Request: 0 Predictive Failure Analysis: 0 The Revision: field indicates the firmware revision of the attached storage device if applicable. The Product field contains the drive manufacturers type/code. Some logical devices such as a configured RAID array or controller do not report a revision number or report an arbitrary number. This number is provided for compatibility and may be ignored. If you are using SATA disks on Solaris 10 Update 3 or lower, the media devices may not be represented correctly in the iostat output until you update to Solaris 10 Update 4 or above. This is due to Solaris using a legacy ATA driver rather than the new SATA driver. CHECKING FIRMWARE REVISION, LINUX: Execute the following command to provide you with the firmware revision of your disks: # /bin/cat /proc/scsi/scsi The resulting output will be similar to the following for each storage media item installed on your platform. Output will very depending on platform type and configuration: Attached devices: Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00 Vendor: SEAGATE Model: ST373207LC Rev: 0207 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 03 The Rev: field indicates the firmware revision of the attached storage device if applicable. The Vendor: field contains the drive manufacturers type/code. Some logical devices such as a configured RAID array or controller do not report a revision number or report an arbitrary number. This number is provided for compatibility and may be ignored. For IDE/PATA storage devices such as CD-ROM's and IDE disks, an
extra package currently needs to be installed to correctly identify
the firmware revision under Linux. Execute the following command to identify the firmware revision of your optical or hard disk where hdX is the port your ATA or PATA device is connected to, for example hda, hdb, hdc or hdd: # smartctl -i /dev/hdX Device Model: IC35L120AVV7-0 Serial Number: VNVD02G4G3R72G Firmware Version: V24OA63A Device is: In smartctl database [for details use: -P show] ATA Version is: 6 ATA Standard is: ATA/ATAPI-6 T13 1410D revision 3a SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability. SMART support is: Enabled The Firmware Version: field indicates the firmware revision of the attached storage device if applicable. The Device Model: field contains the drive manufacturers type/code. Some logical devices such as a configured RAID array or controller do not report a revision number or report an arbitrary number. This number is provided for compatibility and may be ignored. CHECKING FIRMWARE REVISION, WINDOWS: The current firmware version may be obtained by performing the following actions within the Windows interface or remote desktop:
CHECKING FIRMWARE REVISIONS UNDER RAID CONTROL, ALL: The nature of a hardware RAID controller is to hide direct disk
access and create a pseudo volume for mount/read/write access. If a disk is under the control of a hardware RAID device then there are a number of options available to view disk hardware. The Sun preferred option is to reboot the platform and enter the system BIOS's disk setup utility. This option is always available and does not require any additional software to be installed.
If installation of additional software is an available option then a number of packages are available to view RAID array disk configurations from the RAID controller vendors download sites:
Note: Sun may supply the appropriate Storage manager packages for platform integrated/onboard RAID controllers, or RAID Host Bus Adapter cards purchased with the system. Check the Tools & Drivers disc that shipped with the system, or the Sun download pages for the product. An alternative option is to download and install "smartmontools" from your preferred distributions archive or from http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/, if available for your operating system. As this is a third party package, please refer to the documentation distributed with the package. CHECKING FOR KNOWN ISSUES, ALL: Searching the Sun Sunsolve database is required to find firmware
issues and updates for your particular optical or hard disk drive if
applicable. It is important to note that many Sun products operate a version
of the original manufacturers firmware. This is a tested and
supported release.
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