On Fri, September 5, 2014 2:20 pm, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
By the bye, about firmware updates: I like Dell's the best of all. HP, run it from some kind of DOS, and hope. Dell, you can do from a running CentOS system (I've done it a few times), and unlike everyone else's firmware updates, it says, "collecting information", then *tells* you that a) this update is, in fact, for this hardware (and so won't brick it), and b) whether it's newer than what's installed.
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? If current firmware version is crap, then you shouldn't buy any hardware by this manufacturer in the first place. If current version is OK, why bother re-flashing and taking chance to kill the [whatever] board. Beats me. The only time I felt it justified was when new firmware [of 3ware RAID adapter] was adding support for hard drives above 2TB capacity.
Can anybody offer an argument that can change my mind?
Valeri
PS of course, yo can be that rich and have 3 redundant machines for everything, so you wouldn't care about each particular one ;-)
mark
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