Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2006 17:44:27 -0600 From: David Duchscher <daved@tamu.edu> To: Vivek Khera <vivek@khera.org> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SunFire X4100 MPT Issues 6.2 RC1 Message-ID: <DD978597-B5F9-42F2-A423-7FFC20E11B91@tamu.edu> In-Reply-To: <00BECC93-2197-4BB6-A19C-DE832612CB74@khera.org> References: <D5680650-3080-4CCA-B9EE-0E9FC50A6AC8@gmail.com> <7579f7fb0611231216p36e9901cr68611a4038297889@mail.gmail.com> <A45B241A-8C27-469C-8B5A-9C08D79C9BE5@gmail.com> <20061126040626.GA11816@icarus.home.lan> <69C9CF67-0DCB-4E4B-BDFC-7570C2EE01CE@gmail.com> <FD877FD1-BFE7-41DB-808B-E3EA297A6BDF@khera.org> <294F109D-75A6-40A2-97FD-774EB3656CFF@gmail.com> <00BECC93-2197-4BB6-A19C-DE832612CB74@khera.org>
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--Apple-Mail-1--121608686 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed On Dec 1, 2006, at 2:33 PM, Vivek Khera wrote: > > On Dec 1, 2006, at 3:27 PM, Dave wrote: > >> The upgrade to the ILOM card, and consequently the system BIOS, >> will not upgrade the LSI card and cause the boot problem that has >> been reported by me and others. As far as I know, the problem is >> only caused by upgrading the LSI MPT card to version 6.06.06.00. > > Ah.... so it doesn't affect external disk booting? I thought that > was an issue too. I remember reading in the BIOS release notes > that the LSI card bios had to be updated to use the newer system BIOS. I don't know if upgrading the LSI MPT card to version 6.06.06.00 will cause problems with external booting. I do know that you can PXE boot with the LSI MPT version at that level. As for keeping the all the firmware in sync, that is a concern but its a choice of evils for us at the moment. I would suggest not upgrading unless you have a pressing need. -- Dave --Apple-Mail-1--121608686--
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