Aaron Delp’s BladeVault

If you are using IBM Blades in a Boot from SAN configuration and you want to flash to the latest BIOS and firmwares, how do you do it before you install the OS?

The answer is good old DOS. The 4GB HBA and iSCSI cards are both made by Q-logic and if you look hard enough, you will see that they provide DOS utilities to flash both of these cards to the latest version, if you have a DOS boot disk. Remember the DOS Boot Disk? Do you still have some in your desk or in a storage cabinet somewhere?

If you’re like me, it took a little bit to come up with a floppy drive and some blank media to work with. I didn’t want to go through this again so I created the disks, made IMG files of them, and stored them on the site for safe keeping. I created a custom page over here if you are interested in downloading them. I also included the commands to invoke the flash for both disks.

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