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How can I update/upgrade/flash the
firmware of an HP SAS expander card [468406-B21 href="http://partsurfer.hp.com/Search.aspx?SearchText=468406-B21" rel="nofollow
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I used to
do this using Windows and a HP P410 Smart Array controller, however that controller is
no longer available.




The online ROM
flash component is not an option because I don't own HP Smart Array controller. Neither
is the href="http://www8.hp.com/us/en/products/server-software/product-detail.html?oid=5104018#!tab=features"
rel="nofollow noreferrer">HP Service Pack for ProLiant + USB key/stick an
option because that requires a ProLiant server.



Answer




Upgrading the HP SAS expander is possible using Linux and a SAS
HBA.
Note: Flashing firmware to a SAS
expander will likely not work when the expander is connected to a SAS
RAID controller because that controller might hide all
devices behind it from the OS. An example of a SAS HBA is href="http://www.supermicro.com/products/accessories/addon/AOC-SAS2LP-MV8.cfm"
rel="noreferrer">Supermicro
SAS2LP-MV8.



In case you
haven't got Linux, you can use a Linux Live CD. You could try the href="http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop/" rel="noreferrer">most recent Ubuntu
Live CD. A 32-bit download will do. 64-Bit will
also work.



1.
Prerequisites





  1. Start
    a Linux terminal
    That is
    Ctrl+Alt+T using
    the Ubuntu LiveCD.


  2. Make
    sure your internet connection is working
    To download and install
    additional components


  3. Make
    sure your SAS expander card is detected in Linux
    #
    lsscsi -g | grep HP

    Should return something like: />[6:0:0:0] enclosu HP HP SAS EXP Card 2.08 - /dev/sg1 />[6:0:1:0] enclosu HP HP SAS EXP Card 2.10 -
    /dev/sg2




2.
Setup utility



You use
sg_write_buffer version ≥ 1.15 to download microcode when the
expander is connected to a host bus adapter (HBA). To download and install this utility
in 32-bit Ubuntu or Debian, use:



#
curl -O http://sg.danny.cz/sg/p/libsgutils2-2_1.39-0.1_i386.deb &&


curl -O http://sg.danny.cz/sg/p/sg3-utils_1.39-0.1_i386.deb
&&
dpkg -i
*_1.39-0.1_i386.deb


The
sg_write_buffer utility version ≥ 1.15 — distributed in href="http://sg.danny.cz/sg/sg3_utils.html"
rel="noreferrer">sg3_utils version ≥ 1.39 — added
a --bpw option to download in small chunks. An expander might
require a small chunk size like 4096
bytes.



3. Get and unpack HP
firmware
image




  1. Get the
    expander firmware image file, for example href="http://h20566.www2.hp.com/portal/site/hpsc/template.PAGE/public/psi/swdDetails/?sp4ts.oid=3923501&spf_p.tpst=swdMain&spf_p.prp_swdMain=wsrp-navigationalState%3Didx%253D3%257CswItem%253DMTX_07e17cded9e8409ea4b9d7ea74%257CswEnvOID%253D54%257CitemLocale%253D%257CswLang%253D%257Cmode%253D4%257Caction%253DdriverDocument&javax.portlet.begCacheTok=com.vignette.cachetoken&javax.portlet.endCacheTok=com.vignette.cachetoken"
    rel="noreferrer">version 2.10 (C) — dated 9 Sep 2014: /># curl -O
    http://downloads.hpe.com/pub/softlib2/software1/sc-linux-fw-array/p6670438/v96061/CP022989.scexe
    />Although they sound like Windows/DOS executables,
    .scexe files from HP are really Linux executable scripts that
    you can view in a text editor (at least the first
    part).



  2. Running
    a 64-bit Linux and having issues with the next command? Then make sure you can run
    32-bit executables. The commands in Ubuntu are:
    # dpkg
    --add-architecture i386 && apt-get update && apt-get install
    libstdc++6:i386


  3. To
    extract the firmware image from this .scexe file:
    # mkdir tmp
    && chmod +x CP022989.scexe && ./CP022989.scexe --unpack=tmp &&
    mv tmp/PUF21000.bin . && rm -r
    tmp/




4.
Flash SAS expander



When the expander to be
upgraded/flashed is named sg1 (check with
lsscsi -g | grep HP)
,
use:



# sg_write_buffer
--mode=dmc_offs_defer --bpw=4096 --in=PUF21000.bin /dev/sg1
# sg_write_buffer
--mode=activate_mc
/dev/sg1



Older
devices might only support --mode=0x7. Mode
0x7 is also known as dmc_offs_save,
which does download microcode with offsets, save and
activate.



5. Remove temporary
files



# rm
PUF21000.bin


You might
need to unload (for instance modprobe -r mvsas) and load (f.e.
modprobe mvsas) your HBA module again or
reboot to reflect the firmware version changes in
lsscsi -g output.




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