From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 16 16:21:12 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6398216A4DB for ; Mon, 16 Feb 2004 16:21:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from merle.it.northwestern.edu (merle.it.northwestern.edu [129.105.16.57]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E4D843D1D for ; Mon, 16 Feb 2004 16:21:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from r-militante@northwestern.edu) Received: (from mailnull@localhost) by merle.it.northwestern.edu (8.12.10/8.12.10) id i1H0LBp7001720 for ; Mon, 16 Feb 2004 18:21:11 -0600 (CST) Received: from merle.it.northwestern.edu (darkpossum.medill.northwestern.edu [129.105.51.23]) by merle.it.northwestern.edu via smap (V2.0) id xma000242; Mon, 16 Feb 04 18:20:56 -0600 Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2004 18:11:45 -0600 From: Redmond Militante To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20040217001145.GA82245@darkpossum> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="x+6KMIRAuhnl3hBn" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Sender: redmond@darkpossum.medill.northwestern.edu X-URL: http://darkpossum.medill.northwestern.edu/gnupg.php X-DSA-and-ElGamal-Fingerprint: 2AA2 E78E A6FC 9144 3534 39A2 EE0F 8D26 5FDF 481D Subject: PERC3 SCSI RAID firmware upgrade dell poweredge 1650 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Redmond Militante List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 00:21:12 -0000 --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--