US $192 ($190 BO) Great deal on a Quanta D51B-2U 2u Chassis
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My order for 200 of the 1u version of these, took them several months to ship the servers at all and 6 months to get the full number of working systems with the promised accessories. Interacting with them is like working with Mr. Bean.
But what can you do? Nobody else has their supply of parts and systems.
You ordered 200 CTO? That's a lot of manhours to put together.
BMC/BIOS upgrade is required to support V4 processors. Put a v4 in the A17 bios board and it wont POST. Only V3's work...you need the B* firmware
I see. @Fritz seems to have gotten the 3B04 BIOS that supported V4 out of the box? Will experiment with mine when they arrive.
Just a heads up, as the fun continues with these things. I just tried to update the expander firmware (after updating the firmware on the LSI card) to the 1.3 FW QCT has listed for the expander. The flash was successful, said it would take a few minutes to update. I let it sit for 10, didn't see any change, so rebooted the chassis. Now the backplane doesn't seem to work. "lsscsi -g" doesn't show the backplane, nor does storcli, and when I plug drives in, they don't show any activity, like the controller is detecting them.
Getting a little pissed off with Quanta's website, nothing but garbage downloads that just brick things.
the original FW on the expander was 0.7.0.0, this says 1.3
Getting a little pissed off with Quanta's website, nothing but garbage downloads that just brick things.
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EID State Slots PD PS Fans TSs Alms SIM Port# ProdID VendorSpecific
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252 OK 8 0 0 0 0 0 1 - SGPIO
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@Fritz here's how to dump the bios
Change username/password/IP to the BMC ip/credentials, host must be powered off
you can't dump the ipmi, but that should be fine because that worked before. Also, if you're able to liveboot a linux cd, could you also run lsscsi -g, and show the output? (Or storcli /c0/e0 show) and show the expander part?
Curious to see what your expander firmware version is as well. Either way, I've got 2 jacked up chassis now, since I tried to perform the udpate once more on the other expander... FML
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./Linux_x86_64/Yafuflash -nw -u admin -p admin -ip 192.168.1.100 -bios -dump v4bios.binyou can't dump the ipmi, but that should be fine because that worked before. Also, if you're able to liveboot a linux cd, could you also run lsscsi -g, and show the output? (Or storcli /c0/e0 show) and show the expander part?
Curious to see what your expander firmware version is as well. Either way, I've got 2 jacked up chassis now, since I tried to perform the udpate once more on the other expander... FML
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New Update: While screwing around with the now 2nd broken chassis, I attempted to update the BIOS/IPMI, but this time in reverse. The update.sh script does BMC first, then BIOS. I commented out the BMC section, and ran just the bios. To my surprise, it worked successfully:
Then ran BMC update... this also seemed to work:
crossing my fingers that the expander just needed updated firmware, booting it now to see if the expander shows back up. If it doesn't, I think I might attempt ONE more chassis..if that doesn't work im calling it quits lol.
EDIT... OH SNAP IT WORKS
ok.. so I think the order of operations is:
1.) Update 9361-8i firmware
2.) Update SAS exander firmware to 1.3
3.) Update BIOS
4.) Update BMC
5.) cross your fingers.
It looks like im good though:
V4 QS processors now boot.. JOY!
Then ran BMC update... this also seemed to work:
| Firmware Revision: | 3.45.01 |
| Firmware Build Time: | May 31 2016 14:01:19 CST |
| BIOS Version: | S2B_3B04 |
crossing my fingers that the expander just needed updated firmware, booting it now to see if the expander shows back up. If it doesn't, I think I might attempt ONE more chassis..if that doesn't work im calling it quits lol.
EDIT... OH SNAP IT WORKS
ok.. so I think the order of operations is:
1.) Update 9361-8i firmware
2.) Update SAS exander firmware to 1.3
3.) Update BIOS
4.) Update BMC
5.) cross your fingers.
It looks like im good though:
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EID:Slt DID State DG Size Intf Med SED PI SeSz Model Sp Type
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28:0 26 UGood - 372.093 GB SAS SSD Y N 512B HUSMM1640ASS20E U -
28:1 27 UGood - 372.093 GB SAS SSD Y N 512B HUSMM1640ASS20E U -
28:2 25 UGood - 372.093 GB SAS SSD Y N 512B HUSMM1640ASS20E U -
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EID=Enclosure Device ID|Slt=Slot No.|DID=Device ID|DG=DriveGroup
DHS=Dedicated Hot Spare|UGood=Unconfigured Good|GHS=Global Hotspare
UBad=Unconfigured Bad|Onln=Online|Offln=Offline|Intf=Interface
Med=Media Type|SED=Self Encryptive Drive|PI=Protection Info
SeSz=Sector Size|Sp=Spun|U=Up|D=Down|T=Transition|F=Foreign
UGUnsp=UGood Unsupported|UGShld=UnConfigured shielded|HSPShld=Hotspare shielded
CFShld=Configured shielded|Cpybck=CopyBack|CBShld=Copyback Shielded
UBUnsp=UBad Unsupported|Rbld=Rebuild
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28 OK 24 3 0 0 0 0 1 Port 0 - 3 & Port 4 - 7 x8 D51B-2U 2.5 x48-1.3.0.0
252 OK 8 0 0 0 0 0 1 - SGPIO
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Dont worry about it, I finally got it working. See my post above. Thank you though!
Sell the DDR3 on ebay then.It does add up when you're trying to migrate 640GB of itIf you guys find something good do ping me (hopefully under 30).
3b22 is the latest BIOS. the "v4 update package" has horrifically old version, basically the first version that ever supported the v4. No wonder using that update package bricks the ipmi or worse.
the latest bmc requires at least 3b05, and the "v4 upgrade package" has 3b04.
the latest bmc requires at least 3b05, and the "v4 upgrade package" has 3b04.
Please provide a link to the latest then. Quanta for whatever reason took down bios and bmc links on their download page, for every chassis sometime in the last 2 months, including the stuff currently being sold. Google yields no results for alternative links, and I've tried using all of their international sites in hopes they forgot one. I also reached out to quanta support over a week ago asking for downloads and gave gotten zero response.
Got a link to latest releases? Quanta took down their bmc and bios downloads sometime in the last two months, you can't get it anymore
My staff are also having similar problems as mentioned. Working to come up with a "proper" update procedure and will share once we have it.
As to the bios files, we got them from quanta website when it was still online. Not sure of an alternate.
As to the bios files, we got them from quanta website when it was still online. Not sure of an alternate.
maybe knowing the filenames will help...
BMC 383 -- 2b2s3830.ima / 2b2s3830.ima_enc
BIOS 3b22 -- S2B_3B22.ROM / S2B_3B22.BIN
BMC 383 -- 2b2s3830.ima / 2b2s3830.ima_enc
BIOS 3b22 -- S2B_3B22.ROM / S2B_3B22.BIN