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Management: Firmware Downloads

NOTE:

If you click Stop while a firmware download is in progress, the

download-in-progress finishes before the operation stops. The status for the

remaining expansion enclosures changes to Canceled.

7 Monitor the progress and completion status of the download to the

expansion enclosures. The progress and status of each expansion enclosure

that is participating in the download is displayed in the Status column of

the Select enclosures table.

NOTE:

Each firmware download can take several minutes to complete.

8 Perform one of these actions depending on whether the download

succeeded:
• The download succeeded—The statuses of all the expansion

enclosures show Complete. You can close the

Download

environmental (EMM) Card Firmware dialog by clicking Close. The

expansion enclosure EMM cards are now operating with the new

firmware.

• The download failed—The status of one expansion enclosure shows

Failed and the remainder of the expansion enclosures show Canceled.

Make sure that the new firmware file is compatible before attempting

another firmware download.

Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting

Technology (SMART)

Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology (SMART) monitors the

internal performance of all physical disk components to detect faults

indicating the potential for physical disk failure. SMART uses this

information to report whether failure is imminent so that a physical disk can

be replaced before failure occurs. The RAID controller monitors all attached

drives and notifies users when a predicted failure is reported by a physical

disk.

Media Errors and Unreadable Sectors

If the RAID controller detects a media error while accessing data from a

physical disk that is a member of a disk group with a redundant RAID level

(RAID 1, RAID 5 or RAID 10), the controller tries to recover the data from

peer disks in the disk group and uses recovered data to correct the error. If the

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