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    Beware of EMC switches sold as Mellanox SX6XXX on eBay

    This is from the 6012. The reason I have two mac is because ifconfig (when booting from /dev/mtdblock6) reports 2 interfaces: # ifconfig -a eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr F4:52:14:F0:CF:B6 BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0...
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    Beware of EMC switches sold as Mellanox SX6XXX on eBay

    Refering back to step 2 on the Linux box, here are the commands/debug/proof of what i used to make the jffs2 image: step2 debug output: root@n4:~/mel/step2mel# ls bin dev etc lib proc sbin sys tmp var root@n4:~/mel/step2mel# ls -al total 44 drwxr-xr-x 11 root root 4096 Apr 13 19:35 ...
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    Beware of EMC switches sold as Mellanox SX6XXX on eBay

    Yes. same issue on all devices: admin/admin not working, having to break the symlinks and stuffing my own passwd and shadow files, logging in, and calling "cli ". then cli crashes "internal fatal error" after about 10 minutes of "configuring modules". I have a hunch that not all initial...
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    Beware of EMC switches sold as Mellanox SX6XXX on eBay

    Flashed to MT_1270110020, shortened the shared secret string to 48 char... touched the firstboot and firstmfg flags again, no dice :( Image type: FS2 FW Version: 9.3.8170 FW Release Date: 6.6.2016 Device ID: 51000 Description: Node Sys image...
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    Beware of EMC switches sold as Mellanox SX6XXX on eBay

    ok, it looks like i got to flash MT_1270110020 from the switch itself now since i dont have ib anymore.. which device do i set as the target? /dev/mst/mt51000_pciconf0 ? [admin@localhost ~]# mst status MST modules: ------------ MST PCI module loaded MST PCI configuration module...
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    Beware of EMC switches sold as Mellanox SX6XXX on eBay

    PSID MT_1270111029 firmware okay for the sx6012?
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    Beware of EMC switches sold as Mellanox SX6XXX on eBay

    on your first boot, is your device named localhost? and can you immediately log in admin/admin? I wondering if the mddbreq commands aren't taking. Do I need to add quotes to the strings? also is cd ing into the dir and doing ./mddbreq ok? cd /mnt/root2/opt/tms/bin ./mddbreq -c...
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    Beware of EMC switches sold as Mellanox SX6XXX on eBay

    same pn code on the sx6012. 100-886-236-04
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    Beware of EMC switches sold as Mellanox SX6XXX on eBay

    bought 1 sx6018 and 2 sx6012 form microint. and I bought 1 sx6018 from techreboot. so far I have tried on 3 devices. Ive got 1 virgin sx6012 left.
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    Beware of EMC switches sold as Mellanox SX6XXX on eBay

    I wonder if some emc models are just "incompatible" with the conversion...
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    Beware of EMC switches sold as Mellanox SX6XXX on eBay

    Can someone confirm this? MD5 45bd7dd8baf2dd49f27a348c541318e1 image-PPC_M460EX-3.6.1002.img
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    Beware of EMC switches sold as Mellanox SX6XXX on eBay

    I've tried 3 devices so far. two emc sx6018 and one emc sx6012. the mod doesn't work. Either the instructions are incorrect or Ive got bad files. I studied the docs and every page of this thread over and over and over. I even wrote my own docs. first boot I can never log in with...
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    Beware of EMC switches sold as Mellanox SX6XXX on eBay

    is there something i need to do between steps 5 and 6? im not getting an IB link with my linux box.. If I plug my linux box into a different "dumb" switch I get a link.