Areca ARC-1200 - Upgrading Firmware through Nflash DOS Utility

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APPENDIX
Upgrading Firmware Through nash DOS
Utility
Areca now offers an alternative means communication for the
ARC-1200 SATA RAID controller – Upgrade the all les (BIOS,
BOOT, FIRM and MBR0) without necessary system starting up to
running the ArcHttp proxy server. The nash utility program is a
DOS application, which runs in the DOS operating system. Be sure
of ensuring properly to communicate between ARC-1200 PCIe SATA
RAID controller and nash DOS utility. Please make a bootable DOS
oppy diskette or UBS devices from other Windows operating sys-
tem and boot up the system from those bootable devices.
• Starting the nash Utility
You do not need to short any jumper cap on running nash utility.
The nash utility provides an on-line table of contents, brief de-
scriptions of the help sub-commands. The nash utility put on the
<CD-ROM>\Firmware directory. You can run the <nash> to get
more detailed information about the command usage.
Typical output looks as below:
A:\nash
Raid Controller Flash Utility
V1.11 2007-11-8
Command Usage:
NFLASH FileName
NFLASH FileName /cn --> n=0,1,2,3 write binary to controller#0
FileName May Be ARC1210FIRM.BIN or ARC1210*
For ARC1210* Will Expand To ARC1210BOOT /FIRM/BIOS.BIN
A:\>nash arc120~1.bin
Raid Controller Flash Utility
V1.11 2007-11-8
NODEL : ARC-1200
MEM FE620000 FE7FF000
File ARC120~1.BIN : >>*** => Flash 0K