Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 09:34:33 +0200 From: Patrick Hurrelmann <outi@bytephobia.de> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dell PERC RAID controller Message-ID: <20040721093433.68df6787@duality.bytephobia.de> In-Reply-To: <6.1.1.1.2.20040720145450.0604eb18@localhost> References: <6.1.1.1.2.20040720145450.0604eb18@localhost>
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On Tue, 20 Jul 2004 15:54:52 -0600
Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> wrote:
> Dell has recently announced that the firmware in some of its PERC
> RAID controllers is faulty and should be upgraded. I have a client
> who's running a FreeBSD system with one of these controllers.
> Unfortunately, Dell doesn't consider FreeBSD to be a "supported"
> operating system, and is offering CD-ROMs that install new firmware
> only for Windows or Red Hat Linux. It is unclear how they expect
> one to upgrade under a different OS.
>
> What do folks here know about the problems (which Dell didn't
> describe in detail)? Is the new firmware compatible with FreeBSD's
> drivers? How can one update the firmware from FreeBSD (run their
> Linux update under Linux emulation, perhaps)?
>
> One of the problems I'm facing, while researching this, is that
> Dell uses the name "PERC" for controllers that are actually made by
> at least two third party manufacturers. The messages that this one
> generates at boot time are:
>
> amr0: <AMI MegaRAID> mem 0xfeb00000-0xfeb0ffff irq 7 at device 4.0 on pci0
> amr0: <PERC 3/SC> Firmware 1.72, BIOS 3.27, 32MB RAM
>
> ...
>
> amrd0: <MegaRAID logical drive> on amr0
> amrd0: 51834MB (106156032 sectors) RAID 5 (optimal)
>
> Any help in upgrading the faulty firmware would be MUCH
> appreciated. I don't subscribe to this list full-time, so please
> copy my address on followups.
>
> --Brett Glass
Hi,
try upgrading with floppy images. we've upgraded all our dell-server (era-cards, system-bios + firmware, raid firmware on different PERC's) by floppys.
you can download the images and prepare them somewhere else. i took the redhat images and used dd on my freebsd-box to write them to floppys. all went well. but you can use some old windows-machine, too.
Patrick
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