`<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 9:44 AM, Tobias Oetiker <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tobi@oetiker.ch" target="_blank">tobi@oetiker.ch</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">I am looking at upgrading the firmware of our LSI HBAs to P19 since<br>
we suspect that our use of P17 is the cause for disk timeouts we<br>
are seeing every few weeks.<br>
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I am wondering, is it save to flash the HBAs from a running omnios system,<br>
and if so, has anyone written some notes down on the process and<br>
tools to use?<br>
<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I don't believe that is possible on a live system. I have upgraded using the Solaris sas2flash utility on a system with the pool exported. The last step of the flash function is to reset the adapter which fails requiring the system to be rebooted.<div><br></div><div>What I haven't tried is disconnecting the SAS cables then applying the update. I suspect this may work, but is only a useful method if you have redundant SAS paths and can do one HBA at a time. </div><div><br></div><div>These issues are why I run HA systems and can migrate my pools from server to server and perform maintenance at a leisurely pace and confirm everything is the way I want it before putting the server back in service.</div><div><br></div><div>-Chip</div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
cheers<br>
tobi<br>
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Tobi Oetiker, OETIKER+PARTNER AG, Aarweg 15 CH-4600 Olten, Switzerland<br>
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