Hardware

Hello,

I recently purchased a StorageTek 2540 array that has several open drive slots. As luck would have it, I also have several Seagate ST3146356SS SAS drives sitting on the shelf that according to the System Handbook are one of the models of drives supported in the STK2540 (Sun part #390-0422).

So I popped them in the chassis, and they show up immediately and are available for use, which is good.

The problem is, these drives have standard Seagate firmware on them (version 0006) rather than Sun firmware. As such, they show up with a different capacity than the Sun 146GB drives that are already in the chassis (which happen to be Hitachi, rather than Seagate drives).

I would like to update the firmware on these drives to the official Sun version of the firmware, but I cannot see how to do that. I tried to use the Install Array Firmware Baseline wizard, but when it analyzes the drives, it tells me for the Seagate drive:

Current Firmware: Tray.85.Drive.06: 0006
Baseline: Tray.85.Drive.06: Not Applicable

In the past I owned a bunch of Sun T3 arrays, and I used to replace standard manufacturer firmware with Sun firmware all the time, and it was very useful. I'd like to be able to do the same thing here. I also have a SAS controller in my PC, and could use Seagate's Seatools or DriveDetect tools (Windoze) or Seagate Enterprise CLI (Linux) to update the firmware, I believe.

It looks like I have the Sun firmware on my Solaris server (the /opt/SUNWstkcam/share/fw/images/disk/D_ST314656SSUN146G_0A1C.dlp file included in CAM 6.7).

Is it safe to grab that file and use it to update the drive firmware? Or is there a better way?

I realize that burning firmware to a non-Sun drive is not supported, and may render the drive(s) useless, but as I am not using the drives for anything else today, anyway, I'm willing to take that risk.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Bill