Hard Drive firmware updates through Yum repo?

[Jeffrey_L_Mendoza at Dell.com]

> > ...DUPs don't support updating SATA drives, just SAS. It looks like 
> > there is something funny going on, component id 8529 is for 
> the MD1000 
> > SAS/SATA disk enclosure. Maybe firmware_tools is getting your SATA 
> > disks confused with the enclosure, and is trying to update it.
> 
> Thanks, Jeff. These are actually drives from a MD1000 -- SATA drives
> -- so good to hear (sadly) that SATA updates can't be done 
> other than a manual CD install.
> 
> Do you know if this is a technology limitation? I.e., never 
> gonna be possible for SATA drives to be updated this way? Or 
> is it a "not- implemented yet" type of thing?

The latter.