Dell 630F, 650F, 651F manual Copy the drive firmware file onto your C drive

7.Obtain the updated drive firmware from the Dell PowerVault Fibre Channel Utilities CD or from the File Library at http://support.dell.com.

8.Copy the drive firmware file onto your C drive.

9.Close all application programs that access the hard-disk drives on which you plan to update the firmware. However, you do not need to close Dell OpenManage Data Administrator.

NOTICE: You must disable the cache on your storage processors before you update the drive firmware.

10.Disable and deconfigure both the read cache and write cache before installing a new version of the Flare and PROM code. To deconfigure means to set all mem- ory partition sizes for array caching to 0.

The firmware can now be downloaded to the hard-disk drive. See the following sec- tion for details.

Updating the Dell PowerVault 650F/651F/630F Drive Firmware on Windows NT or Windows 2000

To update the firmware on the hard-disk drives in your Dell PowerVault 650F, 651F, or

630F system running Windows NT or Windows 2000, perform the following steps:

1.Click Start—> Programs—> Dell OpenManage Manager—> PowerTool, and click Data Detective.

2.Make sure that the local host machine name is listed in the Set/Get Host and Device window and click Set.

3.In the Data Detective window, click Script and then click Get Hard Drive Info.

A window appears that lists the drive information, including the firmware revision.

NOTICE: You must disable the cache on your storage processors before you update the drive firmware. See the previous section for more details.

4.In the Data Detective window, click Download, and then click Disk Firmware Download.

5.In the Download Disk Firmware window, type the path to the drive firmware file and click Download.

6.Click OK when the download is complete.

NOTE: A firmware file is created for a specific drive model; other drive models are not updated. You do not need to remove the other drive models if your sys- tem has a mixture of hard-disk drives.

7.Enable the read cache and write cache on the storage processors in the Data Supervisor or Data Administrator window.

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