Network Expansion Card Firmware Update

[godless.prayer]

Hello!

I've got a QNAP TS-1277XU-RP (5.0.0.1891) here and I've been getting the following notification for a few days now:

https://imgur.com/a/qZeMWEs

I'd like to update the firmware but I only have this one Network card installed so I'm afraid it either won't upgrade or that I'm going to lose access to my NAS.

What am I supposed to do here?

[godless.prayer]

Looks like I had a false assumption. I thought that the Mellanox adapter was the one with the two 1GBit copper ports, not the one with the two SFP+ ports.

As I'm only using the 1GBit ports I will be totally fine updating the Mellanox adapter.

[dosborne]

I'd like to update the firmware but I only have this one Network card installed so I'm afraid it either won't upgrade or that I'm going to lose access to my NAS.

Although you've already resolved your issue......
I have no direct experience with this as my NIC doesn't have a separate firmware (at least not that I am aware of) but it may be worth finding older (or at least whatever is/was current in your unit and checking to see if it is even feasible to load a downgrade for moving forward.

I'm a *bit* anal, and tend to download EVERY firmware release for all my devices, usually before the shipment even arrives at my door. Lol I hate updating anything unless I have the pieces in place to go back just in case. I have over 30 firmware releases (and a saved configuration file from that version) for one of my NAS boxes alone Over 50 for one of my routers.

With QNAP in particular, but applies to many other vendors, it's a good idea to save your own archives as they pull releases or drop support or go out of business etc. This has saved me many times over the years with a variety of devices. A Western Digital media player in particular, WD released an update, removed all previous ones, it broke more than it fixed, then they dropped the product. I still use it every day, 10+ years past EOL as I had a copy of the second last firmware.