identify h/w mirroring from efi shell on BL860/890ci2 servers

[akarayil]

Anybody knows how we can clarify disks and h/w mirroring from EFI shell on BL860/890ci2 servers with no OS installed.
map command shows that there are two sas disks.

[Torsten.]

The controller firmware bundle (and the IPF offline diag CD has it too) has a utility called "saupdate" that can read the mode.

> saupdate get_mode

if you see "RAID mode" the disks are mirrored.

[akarayil]

'saupdate'command is not supported. system shows that corrently controller is in HBA mode when I use 'reconnect -r' command.

[Torsten.]

Not supported? Who tells?


However, HBA mode means no RAID.

[akarayil]

hi Torsten,
When I type SHELL>saupdate , it gives error that its not a recognized command. How can change HBA mode to RAID mode?

[Torsten. · Accepted solution]

As said in the first post, this command is NOT built-in, you need to get it!

The firmware update package has an instruction included.

[Torsten.]

Instructions attached (DOC file).