8100 Updating Product Software Guide (XCS 6.250) (5697-1716, February 2012)

Figure 21 Code Load Disk Drives — Page 2 window

11. Click Next step.

The disk drive firmware upgrade begins. A status page opens, indicating the progress of the

upgrade for each disk drive.

The disk drives are upgraded sequentially. Depending on the I/O load on the storage system,

it can take 30 seconds to 3.5 minutes per drive to upgrade the firmware. The status is updated

at 45-second intervals.

CAUTION: Do not select a disk drive to manage it during the disk drive upgrade. If you

select an array in the navigation pane to manage it, the disk drive upgrade stops. For example,

if 10 of 27 drives have completed the upgrade when you selected the array, only those 10

drives have been upgraded. If you start another disk drive upgrade, the status box on the

status window displays NO for the 10 drives that have been upgraded and the remaining 17

drives are not shown as upgraded. Proceed to upgrade the remaining disk drives.

Figure 22 Code Load Disk Drives — status window

When all the disk drives have been upgraded, the Code Load Disk Drives On Line - Page 3

window opens indicating that the drives have been upgraded successfully.

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