From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 21 07:28:43 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 02C6A16A4CE for ; Wed, 21 Jul 2004 07:28:43 +0000 (GMT) Received: from dd2626.kasserver.com (dd2626.kasserver.com [81.209.184.189]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E41043D1F for ; Wed, 21 Jul 2004 07:28:42 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from outi@bytephobia.de) Received: from duality.bytephobia.de (pD958E560.dip.t-dialin.net [217.88.229.96]) by dd2626.kasserver.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 34A345954C; Wed, 21 Jul 2004 09:28:40 +0200 (CEST) Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 09:34:33 +0200 From: Patrick Hurrelmann To: Brett Glass 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> Organization: private X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 0.9.12 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd5.2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dell PERC RAID controller X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: outi@bytephobia.de List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 07:28:43 -0000 On Tue, 20 Jul 2004 15:54:52 -0600 Brett Glass 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: mem 0xfeb00000-0xfeb0ffff irq 7 at device 4.0 on pci0 > amr0: Firmware 1.72, BIOS 3.27, 32MB RAM > > ... > > amrd0: 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 -- =========================================================================== Patrick Hurrelmann | "Programming today is a race between software Mannheim, Germany | engineers striving to build bigger and better | idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying outi at bytephobia.de | to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, www.bytephobia.de | the Universe is winning." - Rich Cook