6 Sep
2014
6 Sep
'14
4:21 p.m.
On Sat, Sep 6, 2014 at 9:34 AM, Valeri Galtsev galtsev@kicp.uchicago.edu wrote:
I was always fascinated: why [some] people are dying to upgrade firmware? It doesn't matter whether by firmware you mean system board BIOS, or firmware of some card. Why taking chance having your machine hosed?
Because BIOS updates often fix corner case issues/bugs. The BIOS release notes for this PowerEdge 2970 server: http://downloads.dell.com/bios/PE2970-040201BIOS.txt includes: * Fixed intermittent SATA Drive B not found error.
The likelihood of a BIOS upgrade going bad if due diligence is done to verify the BIOS upgrade is for that hardware is practically zero.