Most of our servers use Areca hardware RAID cards. This documents the
firmware update process for cards of this type. You'll need to have the
Areca command line utility installed. This is cli64
available at
the Areca
downloads page, along with the firmware update packages. If you've
forgotten your Areca password (which you'll need to do the upgrade), try
the default one: 0000. If that doesn't work, try the master
password: MNO974315743924 or mno974315743924
(from here).
Copy the firmware zip to a directory you can work from, unzip it,
then start cli64. You must update the controller's
BIOS, BOOT, FIRMWARE, and MBR in that order exactly.
CLI> set password=XXXXXXXXX CLI> sys savebin path=/root/areca-config-2014-10-28.bin # save the config first CLI> sys updatefw path=/root/areca/firmware/149-20101202/ARC1231BIOS.BIN Message: Updating...Please Wait, It May Take Few Minutes Message: Please Restart Controller To Take Effect GuiErrMsg<0x00>: Success. CLI> sys updatefw path=/root/areca/firmware/149-20101202/ARC1231BOOT.BIN Message: Updating...Please Wait, It May Take Few Minutes Message: Please Restart Controller To Take Effect GuiErrMsg<0x00>: Success. CLI> sys updatefw path=/root/areca/firmware/149-20101202/ARC1231FIRM.BIN Message: Updating...Please Wait, It May Take Few Minutes Message: Please Restart Controller To Take Effect GuiErrMsg<0x00>: Success. CLI> sys updatefw path=/root/areca/firmware/149-20101202/ARC1231MBR0.BIN Message: Updating...Please Wait, It May Take Few Minutes Message: Please Restart Controller To Take Effect GuiErrMsg<0x00>: Success.
Remember to reboot the machine only after all updates have been applied, no matter what the UI tells you to do. After a reboot, the new controller firmware will be active.
