Of all the crazy things in the world...
I've got a Silicon Mechanics storage unit, with nineteen 2TB WD drives that
need to have their firmware updated, and I've got the update: yup, an MSDOS
executable file. The storage unit, itself, runs a modified version of Linux,
with the 2.6.27 kernel, from Open-E.
I thought about booting the SM unit from FreeDOS on a USB thumb drive, but
the 3ware RAID card is in the way :(
So, I burned the FreeDOS/1.0 image onto a CDROM on a spare cluster node
(after first pulling the node's hard drive and replacing it with one of the
storage unit's RAID drives) -- worked fine. However, I found that
FreeDOS/1.0 doesn't support USB (other than as boot devices) :(
How to access and run the disk-firmware update executable?
I thought about patching the FreeDOS/1.0 image (that is, including the
firmware-update executable so that it will be available after booting), but
I have no idea how to do it.
Advice? Suggestions? Instructions?
I'm listening...
--
JONATHAN B. HOREN
Systems Administrator
UAF Life Science Informatics
Center for Research Services
(907) 474-2742
jbho...@alaska.edu
http://biotech.inbre.alaska.edu
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