1. Prepare to run saupdate from the Offline Diagnostics CD or the EFI partition:
• To run saupdate from the Offline Diagnostic CD:
a. Place the Offline Diagnostic CD containing saupdate.efi in the CD drive before
booting the system.
b. Boot the system to the EFI Shell prompt.
c. Locate the cdrom entry in the list of mapped devices, and change to the device by
entering its associated fs number (for example, fs0) under EFI Shell prompt.
d. If the EFI utility is not located in the root directory, move to the directory where the
file is located.
For example:
fs0:\>cd \EFI\HP\TOOLS\IO_CARDS\SmartArray
• To run saupdate from the EFI partition:
a. Download the Smart Array EFI update utility saupdate.efi and copy it to the EFI
partition.
b. Boot the system to the EFI Shell and change directories to the EFI partition.
c. If the EFI utility is not in the root directory, move to the directory where the file is
located.
For example:
fs0:\>cd \EFI\HP\TOOLS\IO_CARDS\SmartArray
2. To display all detected Smart Array controllers and the active firmware versions, use saupdate
LIST.
For example:
fs0:\EFI\TOOLS> saupdate list
********************************************************************************
Smart Array Offline Firmware Update Utility
Version 2.06.10.03
(C) Copyright 2006 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
********************************************************************************
Seg Bus Dev Func Description Version
0 52 0 0 HP Smart Array P400 2.08
In this example, the system contains one Smart Array P400 Controller at segment 0, bus 52,
device 0, function 0, running firmware version 2.08.
3. Compare the installed firmware version to the minimum recommended firmware version found
in the HP Smart Array RAID Controllers Support Matrix at http://www.hp.com/go/
hpux-iocards-docs.
Click the link for your HP-UX version. Support Matrix documents are listed alphabetically in
the “General reference” section.
If the controller firmware meets the minimum recommended version, no further action is
necessary.
Downloading the firmware update
To locate and download firmware for the Smart Array controller:
1. Go to the Business Support Center, at http://www.hp.com/go/bizsupport.
2. Search for your controller model; for example, “Smart Array P800.”
3. In the “Narrow search using only” section, click Drivers and software.
4. Locate and click the link for the firmware download package.
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