Download Storage Subsystem Disk Drive Firmware

This command downloads firmware images to all of the disk drives in the storage subsystem.

Syntax

download storageSubsystem driveFirmware file=”filename” [file=”filename2”... file=”filenameN”]

Parameter
Parameter Description
file The file path and the file name of the file that contains the firmware image. Enclose the file path and the file name of the firmware image in double quotation marks (“ ”).
Notes

When you run this command, you can download more than one firmware image file to the disk drives in a storage subsystem. The number of firmware image files that you can download depends on the storage subsystem. The storage management software returns an error if you try to download more firmware image files than the storage subsystem can accept.

You can schedule downloads for multiple disk drives at the same time, including multiple disk drives in a redundant array. Each firmware image file contains information about the disk drive types on which the firmware image runs. The specified firmware images can be downloaded only to a compatible disk drive. Use the download drive firmware command to download a firmware image to a specific disk drive.

The download storageSubsystem driveFirmware command blocks all I/O activity until a download try has been made for each candidate disk drive or you run the stop storageSubsystem downloadDriveFirmware command. When the download storageSubsystem driveFirmware command finishes downloading the firmware image, each candidate disk drive shows the download status for each disk drive. One of these statuses is returned:

Minimum Firmware Level

5.20