firmware-tools on RHEL5 does not update PERC4e/Di firmware

[Michael_E_Brown at Dell.com]

Our lab was down today. I checked in the potential fix for half of this issue, but was not able to test it.

Firmware-tools should now believe that 5a2d is newer. The version in the testing repo should have this fix. If the lab is up tomorrow, I'll be able to test.

My only other blocking issue before I make an announcement is a small problem with 6G and some 7G BMC that I should have a fix for shortly.

--
Michael


-----Original Message-----
From: firmware-tools-devel-bounces at lists.us.dell.com on behalf of Charles_Rose at dell.com
Sent: Mon 2/25/2008 3:55 AM
To: firmware-tools-devel at lists.us.dell.com
Subject: firmware-tools on RHEL5 does not update PERC4e/Di firmware
 
I have RHEL5 installed on a PE6800 with a PERC4e/Di. After downloading
the updates from http://linux.dell.com/repo/firmware/testing/ and
running update_firmware shows that there is a newer version of firmware,
but it is not marked for upgrade. The version on the machine is 522d
while 5a2d is the newer version. But update_firmware does not prompt me
to install it.

[root at c-rhel5 ~]# update_firmware 

Running system inventory...

Searching storage directory for available BIOS updates...
Checking PowerEdge Expandable RAID Controller 4e/Di Firmware - 522d
        Available:
pci_firmware(ven_0x1028_dev_0x0013_subven_0x1028_subdev_0x016f) - 5a2d
        Did not find a newer package to install that meets all
installation checks.
Checking System BIOS for PowerEdge 6800 - a05
        Available: system_bios(ven_0x1028_dev_0x016f) - a05
        Did not find a newer package to install that meets all
installation checks.

This system does not appear to have any updates available.
No action necessary.

Thanks,
Charles Rose
Linux Engineering
Dell India R&D Centre
Phone: +91-80-280-77147
Fax: +91-80-30501090
http://linux.dell.com/

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