topic Re: Failed firmware upgrade in Disk

Failed firmware upgrade

fdelbene — Mon, 12 Oct 2015 13:11:38 GMT

Dear all,

I recently bought three HP 72GB 6G SAS 15K SFF DP 2.5" (DH0072FAQRD) disks.

As they have firmware HPDF I'm trying to upgrade them to version HPDJ.

Unfortunately the upgrade fail with an "Error when building Halon object" message (see attached logs).

I tried several things/methods, including:

booting from HP Service Pack for ProLiant (SPP) versions 2015.06.0 and 2015.10.0
using the HP Service Pack for ProLiant (SPP) versions 2015.06.0 and 2015.10.0 from inside Windows
using the downloaded upgrade file cp024970.exe
moving the disk to three different servers

Any idea?

Torsten. — Mon, 12 Oct 2015 17:35:35 GMT

What kind of array controller?

For online updates you need a cache module for the controller.

fdelbene — Tue, 13 Oct 2015 09:45:23 GMT

On the last server I tried (a ML370 G6) they were attached to a Smart Array P410i with 256 MiB cache memory.