Flash Accelerator F20 PCIe Card Firmware Upgrade Procedure

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Update Date:	2012-05-16
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Solution 1404012.1 : Flash Accelerator F20 PCIe Card Firmware Upgrade Procedure

Applies to:

Sun Fire X4270 M2 Server - Version Not Applicable and later
Sun Fire X4170 M2 Server - Version Not Applicable and later
Information in this document applies to any platform.

Goal

This document is intended to guide customer's through upgrading the firmware on the F20 flash card, and it's flash disks.

Fix

The easiest way to upgrade the firmware on this card is to use the fwupdate utility provided in the Oracle Hardware Management Pack. The Oracle Hardware Management Pack can be downloaded directly from My Oracle Support website and is available for various Operating Systems, including Windows, RedHat, OEL, and Solaris. To view the supported matrices for the Oracle Hardware Management Pack, refer to this website:

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/server-storage/servermgmt/tech/hardware-management-pack/support-matrix-423358.html

For this example, I am working on a Solaris 10 x86 server:

First, you must install Oracle Hardware Management Pack. If you need instructions on how to install this, please refer to the Oracle Hardware Management Pack 2.2 Installation Guide

Check the Version of the Firmware:

# fwupdate list disk



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CONTROLLER

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ID Manufacturer Model Product Name FW Version BIOS Version XML Support

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c6 LSI Logic 0x0058 SAS1068E 01.27.03.00-IT 6.26.00.00 N/A



DISKS

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ID Manufacturer Model Chassis Slot Type Media Size (GB) FW Version XML Support

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c6d0 MARVELL SD88SA02 - 0 sata SSD 24 DP0N N/A

c6d1 MARVELL SD88SA02 - 1 sata SSD 24 DP0N N/A

c6d2 MARVELL SD88SA02 - 2 sata SSD 24 DP0N N/A

c6d3 MARVELL SD88SA02 - 3 sata SSD 24 DP0N N/A

Update the Firmware:

1. Copy the new firmware image onto the system. The new firmware can be downloaded directly from My Oracle Support.
Once logged in, click on the Patches & Updates tab.
Under Patch Search, search for keyword "F20", and select Sun Flash Accelerator F20 PCIe Card. Download the latest patch for this product.

2. Identify the controller.
In the above example, the controller is identified with the "SAS1068E" string.
In this case, the controller is C6.

3. Update the firmware using the fwupdate syntax:

# fwupdate update sas-controller-firmware -n c6 -f /LSI_1068E_B3-F20-1.27.92.00.fw



The following components will be upgraded as shown:

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ID Priority Action Status Old Firmware Ver. Proposed Ver. New Firmware Ver. System Reboot

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c6 1 Check FW Success 01.27.03.00-IT Not Provided N/A None 

Do you wish to process all of the above component upgrades? [y/n]? y

Updating c0: Success



Verifying all priority 1 updates

No metadata provided, so version verification can not be completed



Execution Summary

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ID Priority Action Status Old Firmware Ver. Proposed Ver. New Firmware Ver. System Reboot

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c6 1 Validate Pending 01.27.03.00-IT Not Provided 01.27.92.00-IT None

4. Shutdown Solaris and then power cycle the system to load the new firmware.

5. Power on the system and boot to Solaris and confirm that firmware upgrade was successful:

# fwupdate list disk



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CONTROLLER

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ID Manufacturer Model Product Name FW Version BIOS Version XML Support

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c6 LSI Logic 0x0058 SAS1068E 01.27.92.00-IT 6.26.00.00 N/A

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