[openib-general] Is there a way to recover Mellanox HCA card from wrong Firmware

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

Quoting r. Bala <cppbala at yahoo.com>:
> Subject: Is there a way to recover Mellanox HCA card from wrong Firmware
> 
> Hi All,
>        while updating the firmware in a set of
> nodes, accidentlly updated one of the Mellanox
> PCI-X card with
> "fw-25218-5_1_400-MHEL-CF128-T-MEMFREE.bin.zip" 
> (PCI-Express memfree FW from Mellanox site) using
> tvflash
> utility.
> 
>    After rebooting the machine, now the OS is
> not even detecting the HCA card.
> 
>   1. Is there anyway to flash with correct firmware??
> 
>   2. or Is there anyway to reset the EPROM??
> 
> It will be very helpful, if you could offer some way
> out from this issue??

Most cards have a single jumper to disable the flash.
If you set it, the card will boot in flash recovery mode
which will make it possible for you to re-flash with correct firmware.

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MST