We are in the early stages of re installing a DL380 G7 that is being moved into a new role within a client organisation. After migrating all data from the server we decided that installing the latest firmware update would be a worth while exercise as they hadn't been touched since originally installing the server around 3 years ago. All went fine except the SAS backplane firmware 1.18(C).
The update hung for several hours until being aborted and now we get 4 blue lightsdown one side of the drive bays, server only has the standard 8x SFF drive bays. Reapplying the same firmware has been tried many time but the best result is the blue lights changing sides (ie from teh left bank to the right bank). Most times however it just hangs indefinetly.
Is there any way to resolve this issue or am I going to need to replace the backplane. Drives seem to be indentified by the RAID controller, and the array is still valid and bootable (no data present that hasn't already been migrated) but do not get detected in the ILO status page.
