Viewing Physical Disk Firmware Version Report
NOTE: This option is not supported on PERC hardware controllers running in
HBA mode.
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NOTE: Physical Disk Firmware Version Report task is not supported on PERC 12 controllers.
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Does my controller support this feature? See Supported features.
The Physical Disk Firmware Version Report compares the current firmware against a list of available firmware and legacy driver models.
NOTE: To generate the HDD firmware version report, negotiable speed and the model number of the drives are used as keys for indexing entries in the
hddfwver.csv
file. If the negotiable speed of the drive is not available from the controller, then the model number of the drive is used as the key for indexing entries in the
hddfwver.csv file.
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You can run the report on each controller basis or for the storage system.
For each controller report, click
.For a storage system report, select
.If you do not have the latest compare file (hddfwver.csv), contact your service provider to download the latest compare file. Replace the existing hddfwver.csv file with the new file at the following location:
On systems running Windows:
C:\<Program Files (x86)>\Dell\SysMgt\sm, where C:\Program files may vary based on the system.
On systems running Linux:
/opt/dell/srvadmin/etc/srvadmin-storage/hddfwver.csv
On systems running ESXi:
/etc/cim/dell/srvadmin/srvadmin-storage/hddfwver.csv
If the existing firmware for all physical disks is the latest, the following message is displayed:
There are no physical disks available that require firmware update.
NOTE: To enable PERC 12.1 on Ubuntu 22.04.2 operating systems, update the kernel to the latest version. The minimum driver version of PERC 12 controllers must be 8.0.0.69.0.
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