Upgrading Firmware Through Nflash Dos Utility - Sans Digital ES208X12HP Installation Manual

1. To upgrade the 12Gb/s SAS RAID controller firmware, move the mouse cursor to "Upgrade Firmware" link.
The "Upgrade The Raid System Firmware or Boot Rom" screen appears.
2. Click on "Browse". Look in the location to which the Firmware upgrade software was downloaded. Select
the file name and click on "Open".
3. Click on "Confirm The Operation" and press the "Submit" button.
4. The web browser begins to download the firmware binary to the controller and start to update the flash
ROM.
5. After the firmware upgrade is complete, a bar indicator will show "Firmware Has Been Updated
Successfully".
6. After the new firmware package completes downloading, restart the controller/computer for the new
firmware to take effect.
The web browser-based McRAID storage manager can be accessed through the in-band PCIe bus or out-of-band LAN
port. The in-band method uses the ArcHTTP proxy server to launch the McRAID storage manager. The out-of-band
method allows local or remote to access the McRAID storage manager from any standard internet browser via a LAN
or WAN with no software or patches required.
Controller with onboard LAN port, you can directly plug an Ethernet cable to the controller LAN port, then enter the
McBIOS RAID manager to configure the network setting. After network setting configured and saved, you can find
the current IP address in the McBIOS RAID manager "System Information" page.
From a remote pc, you can directly open a web browser and enter the IP address. Then enter user name and
password to login and start your management. You can find the firmware update feature from the "Raid system
Console" on the "System Controls" option.
A-3 Upgrading Firmware Through nflash DOS Utility
Sans Digital now offers an alternative means communication for the SAS RAID controller – Upgrade the all files
(BIOS, BOOT, FIRM and MBR0) without necessary system starting up to running the ArcHTTP proxy server. The
nflash utility program is a DOS application, which runs in the DOS operating system. Be sure of ensuring properly to
communicate between SAS RAID controller and nflash DOS utility. Please make a bootable DOS floppy diskette or
USB devices from other Windows operating system and boot up the system from those bootable devices.
Starting the nflash Utility
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You do not need to short any jumper cap on running nflash utility. The nflash utility provides an
on-line table of contents, brief descriptions of the help sub-commands. The nflash utility put on
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