DELL PE 1650 ERA/O not available anymore

[Joost Waversveld]

Ok, status update. I'm gonna try to update the firmware of the ERA/O 
Module, but this will happen somewhere next week I think. I'm not at the 
serverlocation at the moment.

I will update this thread when I have more information.

Thanks guys!

Joost

Pablo LinuxList wrote:
> 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 
> <mailto: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-----
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>     [mailto: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 <mailto: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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