Let's report stuff that works for a change

[Michael_E_Brown at Dell.com]

BTW, reading your footnote, my extraction scripts run every night, so they should pick up things released yesterday soon.

If you see things that look out of date and are not documented, let me know so I can check my scripts. (If -writehdrfile works, they should be posted on my site rather quickly.)

BTW... I'm out of office for two weeks starting Monday, so responses will be very slow.
--
Michael


-----Original Message-----
From: libsmbios-devel-bounces at lists.us.dell.com on behalf of Fabrice LORRAIN
Sent: Thu 8/30/2007 1:57 PM
To: libsmbios-devel at lists.us.dell.com
Subject: Let's report stuff that works for a change
 
Hello Michael,

For the last 2 weeks, I've used libsmbios to update BIOS on systems I've 
access. This is a sum up.

Most of thoses systems have been updated from a pxe/nfsroot 
debian/etch-i486 environnement. Almost all poweredges were updated from 
the running system (debian/etch-i686). The libsmbios binaries used are 
the ones provided by José Luis Tallon in the debian distribution 
(version 0.12.1-3). By the way thanks a lot for the package José.

Working systems :
Optiplex
  * 0x01DA : OptiPlex 745, 2.0.5 -> 2.3.1 (ok *3) [1]
  * 0x01E5 : OptiPlex 320, 1.0.9 -> 1.1.9
  * 0x01C5 : Optiplex 210L, A01 -> A02 (ok *3)
  * 0x01AD : OptiPlex GX620, A07 -> A11 (ok, *2)
  * 0x017A : Optiplex 170L, A07 -> A09 (ok *3)
  * 0x0179 : optiplex GX280, A05 -> A06, A06 -> A08, A05 -> A08
  * 0x0151 : OptiPlex GX270, A05 -> A07 (ok lots)
  * 0x0126 : OptiPlex GX260, A04/A06 -> A09 (ok lots)

Dimension/Latitude
  * 0x01DB : Dell DXP061 (Dimension 9200), 2.?.? -> 2.5.0, 2.5.1 -> 
2.5.1  (ok) [2]
  * 0x00B1 : Latitude C600, A16 -> A23 (ok)

PowerEdge
  * 0x009A : PowerEdge 4400, A09 -> A11 (ok)
  * 0x0121 : PowerEdge 2650, A17 -> A21 (ok)
  * 0x0135 : PowerEdge 1600SC, A12 -> A12 (ok)
  * 0x014A : PE 1750, A11 -> A12 (ok)
  * 0x016D : PE2850 A05 -> A06 (ok *2)
  * 0x01B2 : PowerEdge 2950, 1.3.7 -> 1.3.7 (ok)
  * 0x01E6 : PE860 A02 -> A03 (ok *3)

Not working systems :
None except the unsupported ones reported in previous mail

Great job.

[1] Optiplex 745 has a funcky bios 1.0.3. I was unable to soft-reboot 
the box with this version of bios (stuck at the end of the shutdown with 
no apparent reason). Manualy (pxe+dos) upgrading to bios 2.0.5 fixed 
this issue.

[2] The hdr repository is missing Bios version 2.5.1 for the Dimension 
9200... Upload to ftp.dell.com lately (Aug 29  3:19 DXP061-020501.EXE 
;-) I known, but we got a bunch of them yesterday with this new BIOS. 
FYI --writehdr works fine.

We are know integrating  dellBiosUpdate in our installation scripts and 
are _very_ happy with it.

Thanks again for this piece of software.

@+,
	Fab
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