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Poweredge T110 II SAS disk FW upgrade
Hello,
I have installed 3 disks to a T110 II. SAS controller is a PERC H200, no RAID set up yet.
All the disks are the same (Seagate ST2000NM0023). However two of them are DELL branded, the third one is Seagate branded.
I would like to upgrade their firmware (and it would be great if I could convert the third one to a Dell one but I guess it would be difficult). Anyway:
1. I run Nautilus (downloaded using my service tag) but I see no disks at all (I don't see not even the Dell branded). What am I doing wrong?
2. Dell OpenManage gives me a warning for the third disk (I guess because it is not branded). Will this cause me trouble?
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June 23rd, 2015 11:00
Fesarlis,
The PERC H200 acts as an interface between the hard drives (storage) and the Operating System. Set up RAID so as for OS to have a logical view of the drives and attempt firmware update again.
I am not so sure, but most likely the firmware update will be applicable to only the Dell branded drives. I recommend that you use only Dell certified drives in your array for smoother operations.
What warning are you getting from OMSA? It could be related to unsupported state.
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June 24th, 2015 01:00
This doesn't work. Please note that the Nautilus software I used is the UEFI version and it runs via a bootable USB stick.
Generally speaking, I don't get it. It seems to me that there is no chance that a SAS drive would be directly connected to a server without a RAID controller. I never had upgrade issues with Dell in the past. I would really expect the simple task of upgrading a disk's firmware to be easier.