Title: Dell Firmware Report Institution: Widgets International, Inc Date of Report: Wednesday July 4, 2012 at Description: This report lists Dell firmware and driver versions Active: 77 Stale Count: 0 Stale Firmware: - Questions: If you have questions or comments regarding this report, please mail them to netops@fhcrc.org Notes: Entries in red indicate stale firmware Power Edge 1850 / Windows Host Service Tag Mgmt BIOS BMC Baseboard Management Controller DELL PERC 4e/ Si RAID Controller Driver DELL PERC 4e/ Si RAID Controller Firmware Intel 6700 PXH PCI Express-to- PCI Bridge A - 0329 Driver Intel 6700 PXH PCI Express-to- PCI Bridge B - 032 A Driver Intel 82801 PCI Bridge - 244 E Driver Intel 82801 EB LPC Interface Controller - 24 D0 Driver Intel 82801 EB USB Universal Host Controller - 24 D2 Driver Intel 82801 EB USB Universal Host Controller - 24 D4 Driver Intel 82801 EB USB Universal Host Controller - 24 D7 Driver Intel 82801 EB USB2 Enhanced Host Controller - 24 DD Driver Intel 82801 EB Ultra ATA Storage Controllers - 24 DB Driver Intel E7520 Memory Controller Hub - 3590 Driver Intel E7520 PCI Express Root Port B1 - 3598 Driver Intel E7520 PCI Express Root Port C0 - 3599 Driver Intel E7525/ E7520 PCI Express Root Port B0 - 3597 Driver Intel E7525/ E7520/ E7320 PCI Express Root Port A0 - 3595 Driver Intel PRO/1000 MT Network Connection 2 Driver Intel PRO/1000 MT Network Connection Driver Open Manage Server Administrator PCI standard PCI-to- PCI bridge Driver Primary Backplane Primary System Backplane RADEON 7000 RADEON VE Family Driver RADEON 7000 SERIES Driver Sensor Data Records Standard Enhanced PCI to USB Host Controller Driver Standard Universal PCI to USB Host Controller Driver host1 1 K87871 A05 1.52 1.52 521 X.
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You've been lucky. Drivers make assumptions about functionalities present and bugs absent in firmware newer than version X. Only certain combinations of drivers and firmware are tested, because it would be prohibitively resource-consuming to test all the pairs. Also it doesn't make sense to verify new versions of code against an ancient counterpart with known bugs fixed in later releases. If the server was running for a long time it may be that you've found another working combination or simply lucked out and didn't hit any bugs possible because of the mismatch. Worst case (based on experience with non- Dell hardware server corrupts data on the disks, crashes and refuses to boot. HW specialist called to repair it will wonder why did it ever run with this FW/driver combination. Best case: server runs without any problems until it is replaced by a newer one 10 years since. My recommendation would be to upgrade to the next to newest version of firmware and the corresponding recommended driver. This should give you something that is reasonably new and supported, but not cutting edge code which may have yet undiscovered bugs. Note: Always have tested backups when modifying storage system configuration.
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