sgelinas,

 

Make sure the PERC Firmware is up to date before updating the SAS drive firmware.

The firmware of the perc5 controller is up to date.

 

Done the firmware update of the controller before trying the disks. 

 

Same result.

sgelinas,

 

Try backflashing the perc firmware 1 revision, then flashing the disk firmware.  I believe there is a problem with the current perc firmware that will not let the drives update.  This is currently being reviewed and we should have an updated perc firmware soon.

Was there any update on this issue? I had the same problem trying to updagre a 2900 server on the weekend, driver and controller firmware went on fine but the hard drive firmware hung at initialising scsi.mdm (tried several times).

 

If I still need to backflash to PERC v1 is there anything I need to check first, just worried if the RAID config is using some later feature then will it hose the RAID volumes if I downgrade?

NickFerrar,

 

There has not been another release of the fw.  The only resolution is to backflash the PERC fw then flash the drive fw.  You should have no issues doing this, but as always; make sure you have a backup.

Thanks for the quick reply - one more question though, do I need to request the v1 firmware via a Dell support call? I can only seem to find the latest version on the Drivers & Downloads site.

When you go to the drivers and download page and get to the latest fw download page, there will be a link to "Other Versions" under the download now link.