Table 5-12 Firmware Update Tool Menu Items and Descriptions
Menu Item
Option
Update
Controller
Firmware
Disk Firmware
5-40
Support Tools Manager (STM)
Property
Description
Download,
Downloads microcode to the disk array's database
update PROM
drives, burns PROM code contained in the download
and restart
file to the SP's PROMs, and restarts the SP using the
controllers
new microcode.
Download and
Downloads microcode to the disk array's database
restart
drives and restarts the SP using the new microcode.
controllers
Download only
Downloads microcode to the disk array's database
drives, but does not take effect until the SPs are
restarted (with a Restart Controllers only command,
or by power cycling the disk array).
Restart
Restarts the SPs, using microcode residing on the
controllers only
database drives.
N/A
Supplies firmware to all compatible disk modules
within the disk array (that is, those with the same
product ID). This applies even to disk modules
owned by another SP. The firmware then resides
permanently within those disk modules until another
disk module firmware update is performed.
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