Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2004 18:11:45 -0600 From: Redmond Militante <r-militante@northwestern.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: PERC3 SCSI RAID firmware upgrade dell poweredge 1650 Message-ID: <20040217001145.GA82245@darkpossum>
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--x+6KMIRAuhnl3hBn Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable hi all does anyone on the list have any production dell poweredge 1650 servers? we have several. we recently got a memo from our dell reps that there is a= firmware upgrade to the PERC3 dual channel SCSI raid cards. this firmware= upgrade is supposedly a preventative measure - apparently, dell has had so= me experience with the cards not being able to recover after one of the rai= d controllers goes down, they explained to me on the phone that this firmwa= re upgrade is pretty much mandatory. of course, since our boxen are running freebsd 4.6-4.9-RELENG, the dell rep= who came over to our server room to run the firmware upgrade would not tou= ch them. he left a disk for me to do this myself - apparently, the the fir= mware upgrade involves booting to a cdrom which applies the firmware for yo= u, rebooting, then hitting control-m to get into the perc3 management conso= le, running a consistency check (could take an hour or so), then rebooting = into the o/s. they informed me that i would not have to upgrade the kernel= or download patches for freebsd's native scsi raid drivers for this card. has anyone applied the firmware upgrade to their own dells? seems relative= ly straightforward, but thought i'd check with the list before taking down = machines that have been running flawlessly for almost a year to apply somet= hing which may be arbitrary... thanks redmond --=20 FreeBSD 5.2-RELEASE-p2 FreeBSD 5.2-RELEASE-p2 #0: Wed Feb 11 13:58:31 CST 2= 004 6:00PM up 5 days, 3:26, 4 users, load averages: 0.21, 0.18, 0.29 =20 Conceit causes more conversation than wit. -- LaRouchefoucauld =20 --x+6KMIRAuhnl3hBn Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFAMVxA7g+NJl/fSB0RAmmNAJ9PAWqTLkLkxjy9AmK4/aZQ/+nv7QCgvSYK o8FAg+tNIULQQKeQszFslRw= =PrE9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --x+6KMIRAuhnl3hBn--
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