HP A7143A RAID160 SA Controller Support Guide, February 2007

Installing the RAID160 SA Controller

Physical Disk Firmware

Chapter 4

Physical Disk Firmware

The sautil command is used to confirm and update the firmware version on each of the physical disks in the

SmartArray™ disk enclosure that the RAID160 SA controller is attached to.

NOTE This section of the RAID160 Support Guide focuses on the sautil command options that are

used to confirm, or change, physical disk firmware. The other sautil command options listed

in the sautil help screen and detailed in the sautil manpages, are explained in “The sautil

Command” on page 80.

You will need a superuser user ID to run the sautil command.

By issuing the sautil command without any options, the sautil help screen with command options and

syntax will be displayed:

# sautil

******************************************************************************

**** ****

**** S A U T I L S u p p o r t U t i l i t y ****

**** ****

**** for the HP A7143A RAID160 SA SCSI Adapter ****

**** ****

**** version A.01.01 ****

**** ****

******************************************************************************

Usage:

sautil <device_file> [-s]

<device_file> download_hba_fw <fw_image>

<device_file> download_dev_fw <fw_image> <ch>:<id>

<device_file> reset_adapter

<device_file> start_recovery

<device_file> stat

<device_file> clear_stat

<device_file> get_trace_buf

<device_file> get_fw_err_log

<device_file> accept_media_xchg <logical_drive_number>

run_startup_script

where "<device_file>" is the adapter’s device file, e.g., /dev/ciss5

"-s" (optional) displays a shorter output