Tips for Updating Your Disk drive Firmware Package

Download disk drive packages to the disk drives only if the disk drives in your are experiencing firmware-related limitations or performance issues. Obtain disk drive firmware packages only from your storage supplier.


Attention:

Risk of application errors – Stop all I/O activity to the storage subsystem before the download to prevent application errors. Before you begin any disk drive firmware downloads, make sure that all data on the affected disk drives has been backed up.

Before you download disk drive firmware packages to every disk drive in your storage subsystem, consider downloading to just a few disk drives to make sure that the downloads finish without errors and to test the performance of the new firmware. When you are satisfied that the new firmware works correctly, download the package to the remaining disk drives.Do not physically remove any disk drives that have been selected to receive firmware packages. This action causes the download to fail.