Subject: omreport on PV220S

[Kurt_Olsson at Dell.com]

Uhm... not exactly.

The PV220S is designed to update the EMMs without a reboot of the device
or the host. There are very few operations that require the PV220 to be
rebooted. Those are EMM/Split bus module replacement/mode changes
between cluster/split bus/joined. According to the documentation, the
EMMs can actually be "warm" swapped, but that requires all I/O to the
220 to be quiesced.

Because the EMMs can be individually updated in a split bus setup, you
may have to do the update twice. In a cluster or joined bus the EMMs do
the updates as an internal fail-over fail-back so that you are not
required to reboot.

I think omreport may not have updated itself. Did you restart its
services? I would say that if the update package says you are at E19,
then you are. As Harald said, run "cat /proc/scsi/scsi" and evaluate the
output which will let you know where you stand. 

>From the firmware/drives failing standpoint, I would ask if you have
disks that are up-to-date.  There is a SCSI update CD on the site that
will create bootable media (CD/USB/PXE) for you to get the drive's
internal code fixed. Numerous disks from various manufacturers have
updates available.

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Subject: Subject: omreport on PV220S

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Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 10:06:06 +0100
From: Einar N?ss Jensen <einar at hf.ntnu.no>
Subject: omreport on PV220S
To: linux-poweredge at dell.com
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I've recently experienced a lot of failed drives on a PV220S connected
to a PE1950. I've updated all bios and firmware.
It is running Debian etch.

When I try to update the firmware on the PV220S it reports that the
firmware is already E19, but when checking with omreport, it says
firmware is E17.

What should I assume is correct? And how do I resolve this?



Hi Einar,

You have to reboot the PV220S, before the controller in the PE1950 will
see the changes.

1) Power down server and PV220S
2) Power up PV220S, wait 1 minute, then power on the PE1950

If the controller still sees it as E.17, it might be because you are
running the PV220S in split mode.

If that's the case then:

1) Power down server and PV220S
2) Swap the controllers around in the PV220S -
http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/stor-sys/spv22xs/en/sm/remove.htm#
removing_and_installing_emm 
3) Power up PV220S, wait 1 minute, then power on PE1950
4) Run the update again
5) Shutdown PE1950 + PV220S
6) Power up PV220S, wait 1 minute, then power on PE1950

Check version again
 
//Michael

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