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Adaptec 29320.

Cheers, Tim

> From: Michael E Brown <Michael_E_Brown at dell.com>
> Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2007 18:29:35 -0600
> To: Tim Strike <tim at impactmobile.com>
> Cc: "firmware-tools-devel at lists.us.dell.com"
> <firmware-tools-devel at lists.us.dell.com>
> Subject: Re: Updating firmware on Dell 1750 - can't seem to detect PERC 4/Di
> 
> On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 01:54:08PM -0400, Tim Strike wrote:
>> I've installed all the firmware update repositories/packages on our Dell
>> Linux servers, and have had success updating the firmware on a set of 1850's
>> and 2850's.  I have an older 1750 that has a PERC 4/Di card in it, and on
>> that server only the Bios updates were applied, but the PERC controller
>> updates don't seem to be available (OMSA is saying the the card is in need
>> of an update).
>> 
>> If I run "bootstrap_firmware -v":
>>     bmc_firmware(ven_0x1028_dev_0x014a)
>>     system_bios(ven_0x1028_dev_0x014a)
>> 
>> and "inventory_firmware -v":
>>     System BIOS for PowerEdge 1750 = a12
>> 
>> I know the up2date tools / update_firmware / firmware repositories rely on
>> the information these tools produce to then apply the linked RPM packages.
>> Is there a way to diagnose why the tools aren't finding the PERC 4/Di card?
>> Do the firmware tools only detect certain types of newer hardare?
> 
> Can you send lspci output ('lspci' and 'lspci -n -m')?
> 
> My first guess would be that the perc 4 on 1750 is an adaptec perc. The
> only currently-supported percs are LSI. Lspci will tell us which it is.
> --
> Michael
>