Configure SAS Adapter for RAID - BL8x0

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Changing the mode of the disk controller in a BL8x0 Itanium server requires the saupdate.efi binary to properly set the mode from HBA to RAID. To change the mode of the disk controller, follow these steps:

  • Download the saupdate.efi file for your drive controller and save to bootable media (USB, etc)
  • Reboot server and bring up the EFI shell
  • Once the system is at the EFI shell, look through the devices detected by the system and change to that volume so that the saupdate.efi binary is accessible. For example, if the removable USB drive is detected at fs1, type 
Shell> fs1:

fs1:\>
  • Do an ls or dir on the directory to locate the saupdate binary.
  • Use the drivers command to locate the controller card's driver number. For example 
fs1:\> drivers
T D
D Y C I
R P F A
V  VERSION E G G #D #C DRIVER NAME IMAGE NAME
=  ======= = = = == == ======================
11 0000010 B - -  7 13 PCI Bus Driver PciBus
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43 0002150
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