****Re: I'm uncomfortable with firmware update

[Craig White]

On Tue, 2007-11-20 at 10:09 -0500, J. Epperson wrote:
> On Tue, November 20, 2007 09:41, Craig White wrote:
> > I'm gathering that Michael is on vacation this week which is fine, I can
> > certainly wait to upgrade this system.
> >
> > Curious though, that on an identical (hardware) 1750 but running
> > CentOS-5 instead of CentOS-4 it only updated the BIOS and nothing else.
> >
> 
> Not really.  This stuff is a bit erratic under the hood.  I've seen the
> same PERC cards recognized and updated in one set of servers but not
> another, have seen one version of firmware tools download a particular
> PERC FW upgrade but fail trying to install it, then a later version of the
> tools fail to "see" the update as still needed on that same hardware.  I
> do R&D using the Dell repos, but don't find them reliable enough to plan
> production updates around them.  Booting floppies, CDs, etc, for firmware
> updates may be slow, but is predictable downtime.  Beats a JTAG interface.
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I suppose that's why it's 'beta' and 'unsupported' (other than
forums/list)

;-)

Thanks

Craig