Applying SAS firmware updates from debian, was: RE: Invalid XSL path, was: RE: OMSA Tools, Debian etch x64

[Rainer Sabelka]

On Tuesday 11 December 2007 00:06:31 Bryan Mclellan wrote:
> What do you use to apply this?
>
> When I get support.dell.com, I can get R168472.exe, the firmware for
> 'rhel5'. It's totally funny that it comes in the standard dell
> self-extracting exe. Inside theres a SAS5IRI.FW file and a DLLSASIR.ROM
> file that look promising.

You should also find a .BIN file on the dell support site. Use this instead of 
the .exe archive.

This is what I did on my PE860:

Downloaded FRMW_LX_R168471.BIN
# chmod a+x ./FRMW_LX_R168471.BIN
# ./FRMW_LX_R168471.BIN

-Rainer


> I haven't been able to get the MegaCli[64] utilities to see the controller.
> ('rpm2cpio MegaCli-1.01.39-0.i386.rpm | cpio -idmv' produces both of these
> files. Both are statically compiled.)
>
> When I run either with './MegaCli64 -adpcount' it reports no controllers
> found. Strace shows that it's looking for something in /proc/devices, I
> assume not finding what it wants to see.
>
> Bryan