BMC Firmware Update causes 1950 to brick

[Matt Domsch]

On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 10:20:08AM -0500, Karl Katzke wrote:
> It took us a full week of finger pointing -- I would've felt lucky to get off with 10 hours! 
> 
> As far as I know, it's the BMC Core update, which is marked
> urgent. If you don't see this on your service tag, then don't worry
> about it. If you do see this on your service tag, then apply it to a
> non-essential machine first in order to test it. ;) As far as I know
> as of last Friday Dell was working to remove this update from their
> website.

http://support.dell.com/support/downloads/format.aspx?c=us&l=en&s=gen&deviceid=10515&libid=29&releaseid=R134819&vercnt=1&formatcnt=0&SystemID=PWE_2950&servicetag=&os=WNET&osl=en&catid=-1&impid=-1

is the problematic one, aka CPLD_831_A00.exe and CPLD_831_A00.iso.  It
should _not_ be applied to any PowerEdge x9xx III servers (the
refreshed, "Mark III" systems).  Yes, people are working to get this
fixed on support.dell.com.

Thanks,
Matt

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Matt Domsch
Linux Technology Strategist, Dell Office of the CTO
linux.dell.com & www.dell.com/linux