BIOS UPDATE - cd boot - my tips :-)

I did update 1950 RAID SATA from 6002 to 6003 using boot cd

the file is bigger than 144 floppy so we need some tricks with boot cd -

1) have dos floppy with (cdrom drive, ramdrive) :

CONFIG.SYS:

DEVICE=A:\HIMEM.SYS /testmem:off
DOS=HIGH,UMB
REM DEVICEHIGH=A:\cdrom.SYS /D:MSCD000
DEVICEHIGH=A:\oakcdrom.SYS /D:MSCD000
DEVICE=a:\emm386.sys
DEVICE=a:\RAMDRIVE.SYS 4000 512 128 /E
BUFFERS=40
FILES=150
LASTDRIVE=Z

AUTOPEXEC.BAT:

A:\MSCDEX.EXE /D:MSCD000 /M:12 /L:D /V
rem C:\WINDOWS\net start
PROMPT $p$g
c:
mkdir firmware
cd firmware
xcopy d:/firmware/*.* c:/firmware
 

2) create regular boot cd project and then add to the boot disk the firmware sub-directory

from dell update DELL_PERC-6-I-INTEGRATED_A05_R189149.EXE

3) try it with RW cd disk - so you do not waist ROM-cds

4) boot the machine
change to ramdisk - make sure the firmware is copied from the cd-rom to ramdisk
and run update.bat

Remarks:

you can use it with other installs , when files are bigger than 1.44M

we need ramdisk because update.bat writes to the *.log file to figure out
if it is allowed to proceed with update