Are the FW DUPs I listed on April 7th fixed yet? Is there an ETA when the
fixes will implemented? RepoManager is kind of useless if it creates an ISO
with non-working FW updates.

On Thu, May 25, 2017 at 10:20 AM, Rene Shuster <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Hi,
> the two solutions do not apply when we use RepoManager to create an FW
> Update ISO. It seems to me that the DUPs need to be fixed.
>
> Quote: "Fix is included in newer DUP framework and newer version of
> firmware update ( DUP) on each impacted Firmware DUP is expected to have
> fix."
> How do we know that the DUPs have been updated or that a newer DUP
> Framework was used?
>
> On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 5:59 AM, <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hi Mark/Rene,
>>
>>
>> There is a known issue on linux systems for update packages created with
>> very old framework.
>>
>> All the update packages (except 68NGY) are built with
>> old framework(7.2.0 or 7.3.1), hence they might have the issue. The
>> details of the issue is given below:
>>
>>
>> *Description*
>> Firmware related  to PowerEdge Storage may fail to update with error
>> “Collecting inventory. Inventory collection failed “  In following
>> conditions
>>
>>
>>
>>    - Device being updated is PERC / Hard Drive Or Backplane.
>>    - Operating system is Linux.
>>    - Server generation is 11G.
>>    - OMSA 8.2 is installed.
>>
>>
>> This article is applicable only when all above conditions are met. Do not
>> replace hardware Engineering is aware of the issue.
>>
>>
>>
>> *Solution*
>>
>>    -          Uninstall OMSA 8.2
>>    -          Run the DUP to update the firmware
>>
>> *Or *
>>
>>
>>    -          Stop OMSA services
>>    -          Rename the libstorelibir.so.5 from
>>    /opt/dell/srvadmin/lib64 to libstorelibir.so.5.bkp
>>    -          Run the DUP
>>    -          Rename libstorelibir.so.5.bkp to libstorelibir.so.5 from
>>     /opt/dell/srvadmin/lib64 directory
>>    -          Start OMSA services
>>
>>
>> Fix is included in newer DUP framework and  newer version of firmware
>> update ( DUP) on each impacted Firmware DUP is expected to have fix.
>>
>>
>> Can you please share more details about the failure of the update package
>> 68NGY?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Ananya
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> ------------------------------
>> *From:* linux-poweredge-bounces-Lists on behalf of Rene Shuster <
>> [email protected]>
>> *Sent:* Saturday, April 22, 2017 2:26 AM
>> *To:* mark
>> *Cc:* linux-poweredge-Lists
>> *Subject:* Re: [Linux-PowerEdge] SAS Drive Firmware annoyances.
>>
>> Do we know yet if this is us(er error) or DELL causing the issue? Anyone
>> else experiencing this?
>>
>> On Fri, Apr 7, 2017 at 2:31 PM, Rene Shuster <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I'm building the bootable FW update ISO​ with Repomanager (in Windows :(
>>> ) and have seen the inventory collection fail for other firmware as well.
>>> Inventory collection worked back in 2016, but at one point they failed for
>>> certain firmware. Here's an overview of what fails:
>>> Backplane 12G SEP (for 8 drives or less) v1.00 681JN 2013-01-02
>>> PERC 6/i Integrated v6.3.3-0002 F96NR 2012-11-02
>>> 2.5" 6G/3G SAS HDD (15K) - Seagate (Hornet)
>>> ST973452SS (73 GB)
>>> ST9146852SS (146 GB) HT66 4VM2N 2013-10-10
>>> 2.5" 6G SAS HDD (10K) - Seagte Savvio 10K.5
>>> ST9300605SS (300 GB)
>>> ST9600205SS (600 GB)
>>> ST9900805SS (900 GB) CS09 6PM3Y 2013-10-09
>>> 2.5" SAS HDD (15K) - Toshiba
>>> MK1401GRRB (146 GB)
>>> MK3001GRRB (300 GB) DB08 G9CVG 2013-10-09
>>> 2.5" 6G/3G SAS HDD (10K) - Seagate (Firefly)
>>> ST9146803SS (146 GB)
>>> ST9300603SS (300 GB) FS66 XJ1HM 2013-10-09
>>> 3.5" 6G SAS HDD (15k) - Seagate Cheetah (Eagle)
>>> ST3300657SS (300 GB)
>>> ST3450857SS (450 GB)
>>> ST3600057SS (600 GB) ES68 A07 V38WK 2013-10-09
>>> 3.5" SAS HDD (15k) - Seagate 15k.6
>>> XX518, FM501, YP778
>>> ST3300656SS (300 GB)
>>> ST3450856SS (450 GB)
>>> ST3146356SS *(146 GB) HS11 288PJ 2013-10-10
>>> 3.5" SAS HDD (15k) - Seagate 15k.5
>>> TN397, HT953, GY581
>>> ST3300655SS (300 GB)
>>> ST3146855SS (146 GB)
>>> ST373455SS (73 GB) S52C NYHRG 2013-10-09
>>> 3.5 SAS HDD (15k) - Hitachi
>>> H704F
>>> HUS154530VLS300 (300 GB) B598 R243266/
>>> H5KGX 2013-10-09
>>> 3.5 SAS HDD (15k) - Hitachi
>>> XX517
>>> HUS154545VLS300 (450 GB) D598 7TW7W 2013-10-10
>>> I'm running the ISO (and see the inventory collection fail) on T630,
>>> R730, R720, T610, R710, T710 and R610 servers.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, Apr 7, 2017 at 1:29 PM, mark <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> dsu fails on several SAS drive firmware updates saying it can't collect
>>>> inventory.
>>>>
>>>> the fix, after a little debugging...
>>>>
>>>> download the SAS drive firmware bin manually (one way or another), run
>>>> ./SAS-<whatever> --extract=/tmp/mypath
>>>>
>>>> cd /tmp/mypath
>>>> mv libstorelibir.so libstorelibir.so.5
>>>> ./spssetup.sh
>>>> done.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> could anyone comment if they are seeing this and if so what drives ?
>>>>
>>>> so far my list is
>>>> SAS-Drive_Firmware_V38WK_LN_ES68
>>>> SAS-Drive_Firmware_68NGY_LN_LS0B
>>>>
>>>> there is another segate drive that also fails without some manual work
>>>> on an admin's part , but I can't seem to find it in my notes right now.
>>>>
>>>> anyone else seeing this ? I've seen a few RPM updates to these packages
>>>> but there is no change log on them from the packaging point of view and my
>>>> issue wasn't fixed with it so I have no idea what the change in the
>>>> packaging was that bumped the version number of the rpm packaging as the
>>>> firmware rev was the same.
>>>>
>>>> -Mark
>>>>
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