Dell Perc 4/DC and PowerVault 220S - firmware upgrade under Fedora

[Howard Wilkinson]

Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> Howard Wilkinson wrote:
>   
>> I have 4 Powervault 220s devices which need the firmware on the embedded
>> controller cards upgraded. I have download the dell Linux utilities and
>> tried to do the upgrade. However, this is failing - seemingly because I
>> have mirrored drives for the root filing systems (software mirror using
>> md) which get broken by the scan that the upgrade utility attempts. I
>> have tried to get round this by building a ramdisk with the required
>> utilities on it but the firmware upgrade still fails.
>>
>> The systems are currently Fedora 9 based. Has anybody managed to do this
>> sort of upgrade using these utilities and if so HOW?
>>
>> Regards, Howard.
>>
>>     
> Could you boot in the rescue mode, not mount the drives, and have
> the utilities on a USB drive? Or better yet, build a bootable stick
> with a live CD and the utilities?
>
> Mikkel
>   
Well I built a live CD and ran the Dell utility and it did nothing! No 
failure but no inventory ... so I think this may be a problem !

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