topic Re: Is SP/BIOS downgrade really needed when reverting from 8.2 to 8.1? in ONTAP Hardware https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Hardware/Is-SP-BIOS-downgrade-really-needed-when-reverting-from-8-2-to-8-1/m-p/18832#M1249 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>a) Data ONTAP is already downgraded</P><P></P><P>b) I update SP from within SP, not from Data ONTAP. How Data ONTAP version matters here?</P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 13 Aug 2014 08:03:51 GMT aborzenkov 2014-08-13T08:03:51Z Is SP/BIOS downgrade really needed when reverting from 8.2 to 8.1? https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Hardware/Is-SP-BIOS-downgrade-really-needed-when-reverting-from-8-2-to-8-1/m-p/18824#M1247 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>I have FAS2240 which needs to be reverted to 8.1 after briefly running 8.2. Is SP/BIOS downgrade really necessary? I tried to downgrade SP to 2.1.3, but got rather funny results:</P><PRE __jive_macro_name="quote" class="jive_text_macro jive_macro_quote" modifiedtitle="true"><P><SPAN style="font-family: courier new,courier;"><SPAN>SP sapdr&gt; sp update </SPAN><A class="jive-link-external-small" href="http://172.17.0.200/FAS2200/306-02471_A0_SP_2.1.3_SP_FW.tar.gz" target="_blank">http://172.17.0.200/FAS2200/306-02471_A0_SP_2.1.3_SP_FW.tar.gz</A><SPAN> -f</SPAN></SPAN><BR /><SPAN style="font-family: courier new,courier;">Downloading package...</SPAN><BR /><SPAN style="font-family: courier new,courier;">Uncompressing package...</SPAN><BR /><SPAN style="font-family: courier new,courier;">Unarchiving package...grep: /tmp/fud_eth/RLM_FW/install/Metadata&amp;colon; No such file or directory</SPAN><BR /><SPAN style="font-family: courier new,courier;">grep: /tmp/fud_eth/RLM_FW/install/Metadata&amp;colon; No such file or directory</SPAN><BR /><SPAN style="font-family: courier new,courier;">grep: /tmp/fud_eth/RLM_FW/install/Metadata&amp;colon; No such file or directory</SPAN><BR /><SPAN style="font-family: courier new,courier;">grep: /tmp/fud_eth/RLM_FW/install/Metadata&amp;colon; No such file or directory</SPAN><BR /><SPAN style="font-family: courier new,courier;">grep: /tmp/fud_eth/RLM_FW/install/Metadata&amp;colon; No such file or directory</SPAN><BR /><SPAN style="font-family: courier new,courier;">grep: /tmp/fud_eth/RLM_FW/install/Metadata&amp;colon; No such file or directory</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN style="font-family: courier new,courier;">FW package install failed, the new version is not compatible with this platform.....FAILED</SPAN><BR /><SPAN style="font-family: courier new,courier;">Cleaning up...</SPAN><BR /><SPAN style="font-family: courier new,courier;">ERROR : SP FW Update Unsuccessful.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN style="font-family: courier new,courier;">SP sapdr&gt; </SPAN></P></PRE><P>The file is obviously present in archive.</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 05 Jun 2025 05:30:57 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Hardware/Is-SP-BIOS-downgrade-really-needed-when-reverting-from-8-2-to-8-1/m-p/18824#M1247 aborzenkov 2025-06-05T05:30:57Z Re: Is SP/BIOS downgrade really needed when reverting from 8.2 to 8.1? https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Hardware/Is-SP-BIOS-downgrade-really-needed-when-reverting-from-8-2-to-8-1/m-p/18827#M1248 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>the SP 2.1.3 can only be installed on 8.1. so you need to downgrade Ontap first, then downgrade the SP.</P><P>I think the BIOS will be downgraded at the first boot after downgrading Ontap to 8.1 (because it is included in the ontap image</P><P>and will overwrite it on the flashcard).</P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 13 Aug 2014 08:01:09 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Hardware/Is-SP-BIOS-downgrade-really-needed-when-reverting-from-8-2-to-8-1/m-p/18827#M1248 DOMINIC_WYSS 2014-08-13T08:01:09Z Re: Is SP/BIOS downgrade really needed when reverting from 8.2 to 8.1? https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Hardware/Is-SP-BIOS-downgrade-really-needed-when-reverting-from-8-2-to-8-1/m-p/18832#M1249 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>a) Data ONTAP is already downgraded</P><P></P><P>b) I update SP from within SP, not from Data ONTAP. How Data ONTAP version matters here?</P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 13 Aug 2014 08:03:51 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Hardware/Is-SP-BIOS-downgrade-really-needed-when-reverting-from-8-2-to-8-1/m-p/18832#M1249 aborzenkov 2014-08-13T08:03:51Z Re: Is SP/BIOS downgrade really needed when reverting from 8.2 to 8.1? https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Hardware/Is-SP-BIOS-downgrade-really-needed-when-reverting-from-8-2-to-8-1/m-p/18836#M1250 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><PRE __jive_macro_name="quote" class="jive_text_macro jive_macro_quote" modifiedtitle="true"><P>b)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; I update SP from within SP, not from Data ONTAP. How Data ONTAP version matters here?</P></PRE><P>ok, I never tried it from within SP. I just got the same message about the platform when trying to upgrade/downgrade the wrong version from within Ontap.</P><P></P><P>your error looks like it doesn't find a file/folder. I would try it within Ontap. maybe it does something different when extracting the files. </P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 13 Aug 2014 08:20:58 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Hardware/Is-SP-BIOS-downgrade-really-needed-when-reverting-from-8-2-to-8-1/m-p/18836#M1250 DOMINIC_WYSS 2014-08-13T08:20:58Z