...
8/7/2018: Michael:The firmware on the Z8PE-D12 motherboard in hda004-hda009 and dbc004-dbc006 was strangely updated by Asus in the last few weeks to cover the Meltdown/Spectre vulnerabilities. I don’t know why they did this for an ancient motherboard.
I’ve spent all day fighting the bios update tool, but finally got it working. The nodes were free, so I have He has done hda005, hda006, hda008, hda009, dbc004, dbc005, and dbc006. hda007 was not posting and I didn’t feel like fighting it – a problem for another day. hda004 was sent to CAC, so how that update gets done should be discussed.
8/7/2018: Lulu: No firmware update from Michael. No errors on hard drives. Forced fsck. No yum security updates.