D20 Marvell raid bios update.

Ok i have a pair of Lenovo D20's here one is a 4158-W5K & the other is  a 4158-B6U I just noticed that one unit has a different Marvell bios than the other one.  Is there any way to update them to the newest raid bios?  Any help would be appriciated.
Mike

Can you confirm the FW level for each individual system?
I don't think we normally push FW updates for the Marvell controllers in 20 series out to the field as there is some risk in customers messing things up and rendering their systems unusable.  It's a small risk, but it still exists.
Do you have a reason to have the systems on the same FW levels (i.e. are you encountering a problem on one that you're not seeing on the other)?  Most of the FW updates for the Marvell controllers were pretty benign in nature as I recall. Small bug fixes here and there really.  

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