On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 09:13:31AM -0800, David A. Ranch wrote: > > Hello Steffan, > > What's the *date* of the Supermicro IPMI firmware?
That's indeed an interesting question. Is there any means to read it off the card? We got them with "the latest firmware known" (to our vendor) pre-installed... SM has been > constantly updating their "2.10 Beta" code for over a year without > changing the revision number. The only way to tell that there is a > newer version is the date of the file itself. I used to be using > 09/07/06 but I've been recently using 12/27/06 and I understand there is > now a 02/09/07 version. No versions really give an errata sheet to say > what's changed. Would it make sense to complain to SuperMicro? > Also, on these SM H8SSl-i boards, are they using Intel MAC with one mac > for both the host and the IPMI card, Intel with dedicated macs for the > nic and IPMI, or broadcom with dedicated macs? I've found issues with > the Intel setup with a single MAC. Broadcom, dedicated MAC shared interface. > ipmitool mc info > > Device ID : 32 > Device Revision : 0 > Firmware Revision : 2.4 > IPMI Version : 2.0 > Manufacturer ID : 5593 > Manufacturer Name : Unknown (0x15d9) > Product ID : 4404 (0x1134) > Device Available : yes > Provides Device SDRs : no > Additional Device Support : > Sensor Device > SDR Repository Device > SEL Device > FRU Inventory Device > IPMB Event Receiver > IPMB Event Generator > Bridge > Aux Firmware Rev Info : > 0x00 > 0x00 > 0x00 > 0x00 Sound very familiar, but (as you explained) almost useless. Steffen -- Steffen Grunewald * MPI Grav.Phys.(AEI) * Am Mühlenberg 1, D-14476 Potsdam Cluster Admin * http://pandora.aei.mpg.de/merlin/ * http://www.aei.mpg.de/ * e-mail: steffen.grunewald(*)aei.mpg.de * +49-331-567-{fon:7233,fax:7298} No Word/PPT mails - http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Ipmitool-devel mailing list Ipmitool-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ipmitool-devel
