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APPENDIX

Appendix A

Upgrading Flash ROM Update Process

A-1 Overview

Since the ARC-12x4 RAID controllers feature ash ROM rmware,

it is not necessary to change the hardware ash chip in order to

upgrade the RAID rmware. The user can simply re-program the

old rmware through the in-band PCIe bus or out-of-band Ethernet

port McRAID Storage manager and nash DOS utility. New re-

leases of the rmware are available in the form of a DOS le on the

shipped CD or Areca website. The les available at the FTP site for

each model contain the following les in each version:

ARC12x4NNNN.BIN Software Binary Code (“NNNN” refers to the

software code type)

ARC12x4BIOS.BIN:→ PCIe 2.0 BIOS for system board using

ARC12x4BOOT.BIN:→ RAID controller hardware initialization

ARC12x4FIRM.BIN:→ RAID kernel program

ARC12x4MBR0.BIN:→ Master Boot Record for supporting Dual

Flash Image in the 6Gb/s SATA RAID controller

README.TXT contains the history information of the software code

change in the main directory. Read this le rst to make sure you

are upgrading to the proper binary le. Select the right le for the

upgrade. Normally, user upgrades the ARC12x4BIOS.BIN for sys-

tem M/B compatibility and ARC12x4FIRM.BIN for RAID function.

All these les in the rmware package are a part of the rmware.

You should update all les in the package, no special update order

needed. New rmware works after a system restart not instant

available, so you can update all les before restart the system. The

controller rmware is independent of the array, and update rm-

ware does not touch anything you stored in the array.

Note:

Please update all binary code (BIOS, BOOT FIRM and MBR0)

before you reboot system. Otherwise, a mixed rmware

package may hang the controller.

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