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. MartinReceived on Sun Dec 10 2006 - 12:53:23 UTC
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