how to update PERC5 and 6 firmware remotely?

[Trond Hasle Amundsen]

George Bourozikas <george at bourozikas.net> writes:

> On Thu April 2 2009 00:32:51 Adam Williams wrote:
>> On my PE2900's, 1900's, and 6800's, when I look at the OMSA web
>> interface, they report on the PERC controller that the firmware is out
>> of date.  Is there a way to remotely update the firmware on them?  They
>> all are running CentOS 5.2 (some i386 and others X86_64).
>>
>> 	Status: Non-Critical
>> 	Driver version is out of date.
> [...]
>> Firmware Version     5.2.2-0072
>> Driver Version     00.00.03.15-RH1
>> Minimum Required Driver Version     00.00.03.20
>
> This means that the controller's firmware is aware of the existence of
> a newer driver but the driver is not installed. It's probably not
> available for CentOS yet.

CentOS 5.3, which contains an updated driver, was just released.

Cheers,
-- 
Trond