HI All,
Apologies if I have posted this in the wrong place. I couldn't find a location for storage controllers specifically.
I have a HP P420 Smart Array Controller in a HP Proliant ML310e Gen8, which is being recognised in the BIOS but is not being recognised in the HP SmartArray Configuration utility. I have a feeling the firmware on the card may be corrupted...
I have attempted to flash the firmware on the card via HP SPP but it gives an error (see below). When the SPP highlights that the controller requires an update the current version of firmware is blank. I have tried using the advanced options of rewrite, downgrade etc which produces the same error
Exit Status: 3
Update not attempted. All selected devices are either up-to-date or have new versions installed.
I have also booted a CentOS 7 liveCD and attempted to flash the firmware in terminal with all the switches for rewrite, downgrade, force but still it produces the same error as above
Is the controller broken and I am wasting my time, or is there a way I could flash the firmware back and salvage the card?
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance
Joe