Areca 24/4 Internal/External Port Pcie 3.0 12 Gb/s SAS/SATA Raid Controller 2Gb Cache - Manual (Page 210)

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Parameter:<path=<PATH_OF_FIRMWARE_FILE>>
Fn: Firmware Updating.
Ex: Update Firmware And File Path Is In [C:\FW\ARC1883FIRM.BIN.]
Command: sys updatefw path=c:\fw\arc1883firm.bin [Enter]
A:\nflash
Raid Controller Flash Utility
V1.52 2013-11-07
Command Usage:
NFLASH FileName
NFLASH FileName /cn --> n=0,1,2,3 write binary to controller#0
FileName May Be ARC1883FIRM.BIN or ARC1883*
For ARC1883* Will Expand To ARC1883BOOT /FIRM/BIOS.BIN
A:\>nflash arc188~1.bin
Raid Controller Flash Utility
V1.52 2013-11-07
MODEL : ARC-1883
MEM FE620000 FE7FF000
File ARC188~1.BIN : >>*** => Flash 0K
A-4 Upgrading Firmware Through CLI
This Command Line Interface (CLI) provides you to configure and
manage the 12Gb/s SAS RAID controller components in Windows,
Linux, FreeBSD and more environments. The CLI is useful in en -
vironments where a graphical user interface (GUI) is not avail-
able. Through the CLI, you perform firmware upgrade that you can
perform with the McRAID storage manager GUI. The controller has
added protocol on the firmware for user to update the controller
firmware package(BIOS, BOOT, FIRM and MBR0) through the util -
ity.
To update the controller firmware, follow the procedure below: