Hard Drive Firmware Update on EVA4100

[mike vaccaro]

I have to do firmware on the controllers (6.220) and 56 hard drives. I read in HP's docs that you should NOT do more then 20 HD's at a time...Is this rule-of-thumb or is HP covering there...I called support and they said I should have no trouble doing all of them at once...you can't stop at 20...

[Jeff_Traigle]

Actually, you can stop the process by simply clicking out of the disk firmware codeload screen. It's been a couple of years since I did this, but whatever the documentation says is the concern with codeloading more than 15-20 at a time is accurate.

[Mark...]

Hi
EVA code now up to 6.240 in last few weeks:

https://h20392.www2.hp.com/portal/swdepot/displayProductsList.do?category=NAS

Latest EVA disk drive bundle available from here:
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/ProductList.jsp?lang=en&cc=us&prodTypeId=329290&prodSeriesId=3302267&taskId=135

I am not aware of a disk limit as whenever I have run the online disk code load it has only ever done ONE drive at a time before moving on to the next.
HP certainly recommend that you code load disks at a "quite" time.

Mark...

[Johan Guldmyr]

At least the latest generations of the EVA put the disk in maintenance mode, upgrades it, then puts it back in the DG. There is supposed to be a timer of some 3.5minute I believe. This can be seen in the controller event log.