Good discussions came out of this thread, but no answers to my question ;-)
Last year I bought a bunch of R630, R730xd and some C4130. They were all
configured with Mellanox ConnectX-4 from Dell and I have installed
CentOS 7 on them.
I guess, since I bought it as a boxed solution, that Dell would support
this network card in DSU. But not so far.
The firmware apparently has a Dell tag on them, which means that I can't
even flash a stock Mellanox firmware on them with mstflint.
I have seen there are a few Dell guys listening to this mail list,
perhaps they have a comment?
Cheers,
Jesper
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On 2017-11-27 17:59, Rene Shuster wrote:
Looks like some of you need to start reading changelogs.
Excerpt from the widely popular R730 and the release of 2.4.3 BIOS:
* The Intel Xeon Processor E5-2600 v4 based system may have CPU
Internal error (iERR) and Machine Check error when idle.
* Rarely, the system may stop responding because of a power failure
during the boot process.
On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 8:43 AM, Stefan M. Radman <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
David,
For what it's worth:
Firmware updates for the sake of updating firmware might not be a
good idea but ...
I've been more successful with frequent (e.g. quarterly)
incremental updates than "Jumbo Patches" every couple of years.
Keeps you practicing your updates, change management and rollback
procedures.
Your mileage may vary.
Stefan
> On Nov 27, 2017, at 2:13 PM, David Newall
<[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>
> On 27/11/17 23:18, Jesper Lykkegaard Karlsen wrote:
>> The firmware on the cards are rather old and could need an update
>
> Perhaps, if it's not broken, don't fix it. I get the impression
that a lot of people are spending a lot of time regularly
upgrading the firmware of their machines for no reason other than
that a newer version is available. This, perhaps, is asking for
trouble.
>
> I'm sure this is not the advice you were hoping for, probably
not even advice that is welcome, but I think it's wise.
>
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