Then here is your firmware package from the Support site Drivers and Downloads page for the 860 for updating the RAID firmware from Windows (your driver is up to date): www.dell.com/.../poweredge-860 Run it, then reboot when prompted. 'Degraded' can be shown for the controller whether the firmware is out of date or a drive is offline/failed, but it is very important that you not update firmware when an array is degraded - consider it a precautionary statement to double-check before proceeding.
I have power edge 860. The Admin interface says the raid drivers are out of date. (SAS 5/IR card) I have downloaded the new drivers, but it appears the way to update the drivers, based on their help is to boot from floppy and then install them from dos floppy. ( It seems a bit silly to talk about booting from floppy when dell by default doesnt even sell servers with floppy, and if you ask for one they will debate that you dont need one, but anyway thats beside the point.) Can I boot the server with hirens disk or bard CD and then just run the software from a dos prompt on bart or hirens. I asume the issue is that the software needs exclusive access to the machine and only a system that is not booted from its drives will work. Or am I going to have to create some sort of Dos boot cd with the files for the drivers on it and boot from it? Obviously this is important to be done right, as failure would be bad. Thanks.
Updating Raid drivers on Power edge 860, can I use a CD instead of floppy.