HP Smart Array P700m Controller for Integrity Servers Installation Guide, Second Edition

2. Prepare to run saupdate from the Offline Diagnostics CD or the EFI partition:

• To run saupdate from the Offline Diagnostic CD:

a. Place the Offline Diagnostic CD containing saupdate.efi in the CD drive before

booting the system.

b. Boot the system to the EFI Shell prompt.

c. Locate the cdrom entry in the list of mapped devices, and change to the device by

entering its associated fs number (for example, fs0) under EFI Shell prompt.

d. If the EFI utility is not located in the root directory, move to the directory where

the file is located, for example:

fs0:\>cd \EFI\HP\TOOLS\IO_CARDS\SmartArray

• To run saupdate from the EFI partition:

a. Download the Smart Array EFI update utility saupdate.efi and copy it to the

EFI partition.

b. Boot the system to the EFI Shell and change directories to the EFI partition.

c. If the EFI utility is not in the root directory, move to the directory where the file is

located, for example:

fs0:\>cd \EFI\HP\TOOLS\IO_CARDS\SmartArray

3. Use saupdate LIST to display all detected Smart Array controllers and the active firmware

versions. For example:

fs0:\EFI\TOOLS> saupdate list

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

Smart Array Offline Firmware Update Utility

Version 2.09.03.01

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

Seg Bus Dev Func Description Version Build

0 8 0 0 HP Smart Array P700m 6.60 0

External Enclosures Connected :

Index Description Version

0 MDS600 2.48

1 MDS600 2.48

2 MDS600 2.48

3 MDS600 2.48

In this example, the system contains one Smart Array P700m Controller at segment 0, bus

8, device 0, function 0, running firmware version 6.60. Compare this to the minimum

recommended firmware version found in the HP Smart Array RAID Controllers Support

Matrix. If the controller firmware meets the minimum recommended version, no further

action is necessary.

4. Compare the installed firmware version to the minimum recommended firmware version

found in the HP Smart Array RAID Controllers Support Matrix.

If the controller firmware meets the minimum recommended version, no further action is

necessary.

Downloading the firmware update

To locate and download firmware for the Smart Array P700m Controller, follow these steps:

1. Go to the Business Support Center, at:

http://www.hp.com/go/bizsupport

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