topic Re: UPDATE SEAGATE DRIVE FIRMWARE FROM HP01 to HP04 in Disk

UPDATE SEAGATE DRIVE FIRMWARE FROM HP01 to HP04

Luk Vandenbussche — Tue, 22 Oct 2002 12:45:50 GMT

Hello,

I'am trying to update the firmware of my disks to version HP04 from a tape with firmware.
I have read the instructions, but during the scanning of the device busses the system always reboot.

Any idea's?

Re: UPDATE SEAGATE DRIVE FIRMWARE FROM HP01 to HP04

Ricardo Rocha — Tue, 22 Oct 2002 13:05:01 GMT

Hi

Are you booting from the tape, or using stm?

When you perform the ioscan command, does the server reboot? If it does, you may have some hardware problem.

Be sure to have no I/O on the disks while uprading, ie, if possible deactivate the volume groups where the disks are, or just umount the file system.

Bye

Re: UPDATE SEAGATE DRIVE FIRMWARE FROM HP01 to HP04

Sandip Ghosh — Tue, 22 Oct 2002 13:12:50 GMT

Boot the system in ODE mode and then try to upgrade the firmware. Are the drives in working condition? There may be some H/W Problem on your system.

Sandip

Re: UPDATE SEAGATE DRIVE FIRMWARE FROM HP01 to HP04

Nick Weaver_3 — Wed, 23 Oct 2002 07:41:11 GMT

Hello,

The problem is probably your version of PDC on the box you are running the firmware update tape on.

If the PDC is an old rev them it appears that the mapper2 utility cannot scan the system to see what disks are there to update.

Try updateing the PDC to the latest and then boot the firmware update tape again.

Good luck.

Nick.

Re: UPDATE SEAGATE DRIVE FIRMWARE FROM HP01 to HP04

Nick Weaver_3 — Wed, 23 Oct 2002 07:43:40 GMT

P.S.

I also had a problem on 'some' L Class systems even after I updated the PDC, but I could not find what was affecting the update.

For these machine I had to move the disks to another system and update their firmware.

Nick.

Re: UPDATE SEAGATE DRIVE FIRMWARE FROM HP01 to HP04

Luk Vandenbussche — Wed, 23 Oct 2002 13:07:44 GMT

Hello,

After I update the firmware of the CPU the server didn't reboot at initialisation of the hard disk to upgrade. But it gave several errors. Then I also changed the disks from an L1000 to an L2000. On the L2000 I could perform the upgrade without any problem?
Very strange.

Re: UPDATE SEAGATE DRIVE FIRMWARE FROM HP01 to HP04

Nick Weaver_3 — Thu, 24 Oct 2002 10:03:09 GMT

Yes, I agree very stange is exactly what I thought when I can across this problem.

Any HP people out there willing to give us an answer to this one?

Nick.

Re: UPDATE SEAGATE DRIVE FIRMWARE FROM HP01 to HP04

Nick Weaver_3 — Thu, 24 Oct 2002 10:07:24 GMT

Luk,

BTW. Were the error messages you received saying that the disk was in an 'unknown state'?

Nick.

Re: UPDATE SEAGATE DRIVE FIRMWARE FROM HP01 to HP04

Luk Vandenbussche — Thu, 24 Oct 2002 11:03:46 GMT

Nick,

I don't know anymore what the exact messages was.

Luk

Re: UPDATE SEAGATE DRIVE FIRMWARE FROM HP01 to HP04

Luk Vandenbussche — Thu, 15 Sep 2005 01:23:24 GMT

problem solved