[geeks] Gigabit upgrade

[Shannon Hendrix]

On Aug 4, 2008, at 07:47 , Patrick Giagnocavo wrote:

> Shannon Hendrix wrote:
>
>> I have tried the SFP ports with non-HP fibre optic modules and they  
>> worked fine in spite of HP's warning to use nothing but HP modules.
>
> However HP has recently started putting checks in the firmware to  
> determine if the module is HP or not, and not running the module in  
> such cases, according to what I read on another list ; so beware.

That's pretty screwed up.

HP modules are not as good as competing modules, and I have some they  
don't even make.

Idiots.

Any pointers to information on which updated they did this too?

If I ever have a valid reason to update, I'd like to know more and not  
just have my stuff stop working.

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Shannon Hendrix
shannon at widomaker.com