Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2006 12:05:35 -0800 From: Ulf Zimmermann <ulf@Alameda.net> To: "J. Martin Petersen" <jmp.lists@alvorlig.dk> Cc: ulf@Alameda.net, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>, Peter_Losher@isc.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6 (or 7) on a HP DL140 G3 SATA Message-ID: <20061210200534.GU98520@evil.alameda.net> In-Reply-To: <457C1140.5040703@alvorlig.dk> References: <4578E1AD.3090505@isc.org> <457A9DA0.1020601@alvorlig.dk> <20061209114555.A2273@fledge.watson.org> <20061209185802.GT98520@evil.alameda.net> <457C1140.5040703@alvorlig.dk>
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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
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