PowerStore: Pre-Upgrade Health Check for locked firmware port in Samsung SAS drives

Сводка: The Pre-Upgrade Health Check (PUHC), in the health check package, detects if there is a Samsung PM1643/PM1643a SAS drive with the firmware port locked. This check is designed to detect the SAS drives with a locked firmware port that prevents Disk Firmware upgrade from succeeding. ...

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 As part of the disk firmware upgrade, the PUHC checks if the cluster has a Samsung PM1643/PM1643a SAS drive with the firmware port locked.
If a drive with a locked firmware port is detected, the following message is displayed "Found Samsung SAS drives with firmware port locked. KB#000207951. Please contact your service provider. (drive_fw_port_check)". 

Screenshot of Pre-Upgrade Health Check (PUHC) window: 
 
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Details panel of Pre-Upgrade Health Check (PUHC) window: 
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Причина

The Samsung SAS drive PM1643 and PM1643A SAS TCG Enterprise SEDs were shipped with firmware port locked from manufacturing, and, as a result, the drive firmware upgrade for these drives may fail. Dell Support can resolve this issue if a locked firmware port is detected.

Разрешение

Contact Dell Technical Support to resolve this issue. Reference this KB Article for expedited handling.

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Номер статьи: 000207951
Тип статьи: Solution
Последнее изменение: 13 Jun 2025
Версия:  7
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