Release Notes
your system from the Dell Support website at www.dell.com/support.
Some distributions of Linux may automatically mount a USB flash drive with the "-noexec" option.
This prevents the execution of any wfile on that drive, including Dell Update Packages. If you are
attempting to run a Dell Update Package from a USB flash drive under Linux, and are
experiencing problems, remount the drive without the "-noexec" option, or copy the Dell Update
Package to a drive mounted without the "-noexec" option.
Dell Update Packages do not require new refreshes of existing SWB's to be reinstalled since the firmware
image or driver does not change when the SWB is refreshed. A new DUP with different SWB is available if
changes have been made to the firmware image or driver.
If the console terminal displays USB connection status messages, ignore them as they do not affect the system.
On all versions of ESX the following the USB Connection message with errors, these messages can also be
ignored. The following shows a typical message:
Vendor: iDRAC Model: MAS022 Rev: 1.00
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
VMWARE SCSI Id: Supported VPD pages for sdc : 0x1f
VMWARE SCSI Id: Could not get disk id for sdc
VMWARE: Unique Device attached as scsi disk sdc at scsi3, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
Attached scsi removable disk sdc at scsi3, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
SCSI device sdc: 327680 512-byte hdwr sectors (168 MB)
sdc: Write Protect is on
SCSI disk error: host 3 channel 0 id 0 lun 0 return code = 8000002
Current sd08:21: sense key Data Protect
Additional sense indicates Write protected
I/O error: dev 08:21, sector 1
SCSI disk error : host 3 channel 0 id 0 lun 0 return code = 8000002
Current sd08:21: sense key Data Protect
Additional sense indicates Write protected
I/O error: dev 08:21, sector 1
Vendor: iDRAC Model: SECUPD Rev: 0329
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
DRAC5 updates are not supported on ESX 4.1. But if you run DRAC5 updates on ESX 4.1, console messages
show up asking for IPMI installations, however later the updates goes through successfully.
DUPs are designed to run only on a 32-bit environment. To run DUPs on a pure 64-bit environment, use the
Dell YUM repository.
If you attach VMedia on a system with the iDRAC Firmware version 1.5 some DUPs may fail to work. To
resolve this issue, run the following command:
racadm config -g cfgRacVirtual -o cfgLCDriveEnable 1 where cfgLCDriveEnable is an option implemented
in iDRAC 1.5 with a default of 0 (disabled)
NOTE: This command enables LCDrive from the iDRAC console or the OS. If the LCDrive is not enabled,
DUPs may not work. After the DUP update is complete, to ensure the LCDrive is invisible, run the following
command:
racadm config -g cfgRacVirtual -o cfgLCDriveEnable 0.
When you run USC-related DUPs with Citrix Xenserver 5.6.0-x, you need to set the virtual media in iDRAC
to Detach. If you set the virtual media to Attach, the following error message is displayed:
"Inventory Failure: Secure Copy Failure - The Secure copy function has failed"
For BIOS updates, the following message is displayed:
"doDepCheck failed"
For other USC access related DUPs (PSU, NIC, SAS, PERC, BackPlane), the update is successful but the
following error message may be displayed:
"… mount: block device /dev/secmasupd-SECUPD is write-protected …
/bin/cp: cannot create regular file …"