DELL PE 1650 ERA/O not available anymore

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I think as Michael
I had have a similar problem that yours and it was solved installing the
update from the floppy package. It could take 15 "clock" minutes.
But it works finally
Tell us how you solve this problem!
regards


2006/5/29, Michael Marshall <Michael.Marshall at lbfire.org.uk>:
>
> I had a similar issue albeit under Windows.  The ERA didn't respond on
> it's own NIC, the windows update package would moan that no card was
> present etc.  Also the BIOS would moan that the Embedded server
> management firmware was damaged or something similar.
>
> After a discussion with Tech Support, I managed to find a pile of
> discarded floppies and write the floppy firmware update discs using the
> floppy package on the web.
>
> Booting off this puts the card into a 'Recovery mode' and re-flashes it
> back to defaults (so be careful it'll be back to the default
> username/password).  It took a good 5-10 minutes to do this in total.
>
> Also, make sure to test your floppies are readable or take multiple
> copies of the disks with you - I went through 6 discs before I found two
> that were reliably readable.... I get the feeling 'new' floppies have
> been sitting in a damp warehouse somewhere for the last ten years.....
>
> Michael.
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com
> [mailto:linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com] On Behalf Of Joost Waversveld
> Sent: Monday, May 29, 2006 1:27 PM
> To: linux-poweredge at dell.com
> Subject: Re: DELL PE 1650 ERA/O not available anymore
>
>
> I already tried that, but if I download the Firmware update for the ERA
> (linux bin-file) and try to install that one, I get the error that the
> ERA card can not be established. I'm not at the server location (40
> minutes drive), so I can not try to install it through an floppy right
> now.
>
>
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