From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Dec 10 20:05:43 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 18A5916A407; Sun, 10 Dec 2006 20:05:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ulf@alameda.net) Received: from mail.alameda.net (mail.alameda.net [64.81.53.120]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD04243C9D; Sun, 10 Dec 2006 20:04:30 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ulf@alameda.net) Received: by mail.alameda.net (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 34B5633D6B; Sun, 10 Dec 2006 12:05:35 -0800 (PST) Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2006 12:05:35 -0800 From: Ulf Zimmermann To: "J. Martin Petersen" Message-ID: <20061210200534.GU98520@evil.alameda.net> References: <4578E1AD.3090505@isc.org> <457A9DA0.1020601@alvorlig.dk> <20061209114555.A2273@fledge.watson.org> <20061209185802.GT98520@evil.alameda.net> <457C1140.5040703@alvorlig.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <457C1140.5040703@alvorlig.dk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Organization: Alameda Networks, Inc. X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE X-ANI-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-ANI-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-ANI-MailScanner-From: ulf@alameda.net Cc: ulf@Alameda.net, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, Robert Watson , Peter_Losher@isc.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6 (or 7) on a HP DL140 G3 SATA X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: ulf@Alameda.net List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2006 20:05:43 -0000 On Sun, Dec 10, 2006 at 02:53:04PM +0100, J. Martin Petersen wrote: > Ulf Zimmermann wrote: > >On Sat, Dec 09, 2006 at 11:47:21AM +0000, Robert Watson wrote: > >>Upgrading proved to be a bit of a pain because the > >>boxes don't have CDROM or floppy drives, and the HP firmware updater > >>download is rather weird, but once it was updated (using a USB floppy > >>drive) all was happiness. > >>Oddly, the i386 loader had no problem at all... > > I think we tried both without success, but I am not 100% sure. > > >Here is how I update the bios on DL140. Create a DOS boot disk (I usual > >use 6.22), put a ramdisk driver on it and whatever you need to flash > >the bios. Then make an image of the disk and load it into your pxe > >server. Boot via PXE said floppy image, copy BIOS flash utils and > >firmware to ramdisk. Then run software from there. If you don't use > >the ram disk, I have seen it fail often. > > We created a bootable USB stick with each of the BIOS'es and used that > to flash with. Very easy and worked like a charm, once we found a > Windows-"enabled" laptop. > > What kind of disk performance are you seeing from the disks hooked up to > the mpt-controller? We are seeing disk transfers around 6MB/sec, which > seems very slow, but I do not know how to diagnose it. We only have some DL140 g1 and one g2. The g2 is running 4.11-REL right now, it was suppose to be a squid box but so far it is just sitting idle. As to upgrading the bios, I went the pxe way, because I did some machines 700 miles that way. -- Regards, Ulf. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Ulf Zimmermann, 1525 Pacific Ave., Alameda, CA-94501, #: 510-865-0204 You can find my resume at: http://seven.Alameda.net/~ulf/resume.html