While attempting to extract firmware for my Lenovo T500 laptop from an ISO obtained from the Lenovo support site I noticed that the ISO appeared empty. 1jeff@xyz:~/LenovoBIOS$ file 6fuj46uc.iso 26fuj46uc.iso: ISO 9660 CD-ROM filesystem data '6FET93US' (bootable) 34jeff@xyz:~/LenovoBIOS$ sudo mount -o loop …

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Determining which switch port a WWPN is connected to is easy on a Brocade fabric when there is only one switch. Using the nodefind CLI command you can run "nodefind WWPN" and it will tell you which port index the WWPN is located on. In this example, line 2 of the nodefind output shows the node is located …

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While working on a project where a fast microcontroller with Power over Ethernet capabilities made sense, I discovered the TTGO T-Internet (also known as T-ETH) PoE ESP32 board on Aliexpress. I have used the TTGO T-Display in the past so I figured I'd give it a shot. In order to implement it in my design I had to …

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Have you ever been lazily sitting playing Nintendo and wanted to reset the console without getting up? I have, and I thought there had to be a better way... Using a cheap Arduino Nano (ATmega328) clone from Aliexpress, a few wires and a little tinkering, I created a solution. This device passively reads the clock, …

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Update: Thanks to Google Books I found a reference to this game in the book "Brand Leadership: Building Assets In an Information Economy": "IBM sponsored an interactive sports game, the Shockwave IBM Virtual Dunkathon, on a number of sport- and game-related sites (such as nba.com) to attract young, …

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After fumbling around for a while trying to mount an ISO on my Supermicro motherboard IPMI, I finally figured out that it requires SMB1 in order to mount. SMB1 is an old and potentially insecure protocol but if you wish to enable it here are the steps. Navigate to Services and click on properties for the SMB service. …

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In an effort to increase the performance of a generic 4 port PCI-E USB 3.0 adapter I bought on eBay, I went down the rabbit hole of flashing newer firmware on it. After several failed attempts at using the VIA flash utility (see links below), I realized I had to determine which SPI flash was on my card. In my case it …

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If you have a Dell H200, IBM M1015 or other rebranded LSI 9211-8i HBA, you may run into an issue flashing IT firmware due to the error message "Cannot Flash IT Firmware over IR Firmware". An example of such an error: 1fs0:\> sas2flash.efi -c 0 -o -f 2118it_19.bin 2LSI Corporation SAS2 Flash Utility …

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Now that the Dell R210 II is unsupported, obtaining firmware is tougher. I was able to generate a bootable ISO using Dell Repository Manager (DRM) which contains the latest firmware updates as of December 2019. I am publishing it here hoping it is useful for somebody. This worked for my system but your mileage my vary …

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I was unable to get esxcli, storcli or MegaCLI to display my 9211-8i (IR mode) adapter information in ESXi: 1[root@hostname:~] esxcli storage core adapter list | grep mpt 2vmhba2 mpt2sas link-n/a sas.xx (0000:02:00.0) LSI Logic / Symbios Logic Dell 6Gbps SAS HBA Adapter 34[root@hostname:~] /opt/lsi/storcli/storcli /c0 …

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