Oracle System Assistant Cannot be Used to Update a Sun Storage 6 Gb SAS PCIe HBA From Legacy BIOS Firmware to UEFI BIOS Firmware (7123372)

Oracle System Assistant cannot be used to update a Sun Storage 6 Gb SAS PCIe host bus adapter (HBA) from Legacy (non-UEFI) BIOS firmware to UEFI BIOS firmware.

Updating the HBA to Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) BIOS firmware requires two consecutive firmware updates. Oracle System Assistant is unable to perform consecutive firmware updates on a single HBA. Instead, use the LSI sas2flash utility.

Perform the following workaround to update the HBA firmware using the LSI sas2flash utility:

1. Download the OS version-specific sas2flash utility for the HBA at:

   http://www.lsi.com/sep/Pages/oracle/sas_6gbs_support.aspx

2. To identify the controller number, use the sas2flash utility to list all of the installed SAS2 (Sun Storage 6 Gb SAS PCIe) HBAs: -> sas2flash -listall
3. To update the HBA, use the following sas2flash commands, where n is the controller number displayed by the sas2flash list command in step 2.

   -> sas2flash -c n -f fw-rem-11050000-0a030019.bin
   -> sas2flash -c n - b x64sas2-07180207.rom
   -> sas2flash -c n - b mptsas2-7210400.rom