Hard Drive firmware updates through Yum repo?

[Hostmaster]

>Is there no way of updating the firmware of those drives "offline" but  
>still remotely?

IP KVM's for the win! This is how I have done remote disk firmware flashes. Dell
rebadge Avocent IP KVM's and the software and it works really well, but it does
still require having some "remote hands" to put the disk in the drive. You
*might* be able to do this with a DRAC card as I believe they have some form of
remote boot image  support but someone who has used them could advise you
better.

As always, YMMV.

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