Scott Marlowe wrote:
On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 3:51 PM, Richard Neill <rn214@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
This isn't true. IBMs IPS series controllers can the checked and
configured via the ipssend utility that works very well in 2.6.x LINUX.
Unfortunately, what we got (in the IBM) was the garbage ServeRaid 8kl card.
This one is atrocious - it shipped with a hideous firmware bug. And there is
no way to bypass it.
Can you replace the IBM RAID controller with some other controller?
Even just a simple 4 or 8 port SATA card with no RAID capability would
be better than something that locks up.
A replacement would have been nice, however the 8kl is very tightly
integrated with the motherboard and the backplane. We'd have had to buy
a PCI-X card, and then get out the soldering iron to fix the cables.
To be fair, the 8kl is now working OK; also there was a note in the box
mentioning that firmware updates should be applied if available. What I
found unbelievable was that IBM shipped the server to me in a state with
known crashing firmware (a sufficiently bad bug imho to merit a product
recall), and hadn't bothered to flash it themselves in the factory.
Usually BIOS updates are only applied by the end user if there is a
specific issue to fix, and if the product line has been out for years,
but that particular server was only assembled 3 weeks ago, why would one
expect a company of IBM's standing to ship it in that state.
Richard
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