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Date:      Wed, 8 Mar 2000 23:18:43 +0100
From:      Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl>
To:        Kevin Day <toasty@dragondata.com>
Cc:        mjacob@feral.com, scsi@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: DLT problems
Message-ID:  <20000308231843.B3366@yedi.iaf.nl>
In-Reply-To: <200003081911.NAA95952@celery.dragondata.com>; from toasty@dragondata.com on Wed, Mar 08, 2000 at 01:11:02PM -0600
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.10003081103360.78286-100000@semuta.feral.com> <200003081911.NAA95952@celery.dragondata.com>

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On Wed, Mar 08, 2000 at 01:11:02PM -0600, Kevin Day wrote:
> > 
> > > > 
> > > > Fixed block, I believe. When I get back there, I'll double check.
> > > > 
> > > > I looked for a firmware upgrade for this, but www.compaq.com seems to have
> > > > no DEC related materials any more. 
> > > 
> > > Firmware upgrades were always done via DEC Fieldservice. 
> > 
> > Ah, not always after Quantum bought AVAstore. Check the ftp site- they've some
> > windoze tools for upgrading f/w.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
> Yeah, I found firmware on ftp.quantum.com.... www.dltape.com has a tip that
> if you dd the upgrade onto a tape, then power off/on the drive, it'll read
> the firmware off of the tape and reflash itself... I'm not sure if I'm brave
> enough to try this, though. :)

That is known as a FUP tape. Works well in my experience. Quantum also 
had/has (have not checked recently) the DLTtools program. DOS/ASPI based.

W/
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Wilko Bulte 			Arnhem, The Netherlands	  
http://www.tcja.nl  		The FreeBSD Project: http://www.freebsd.org


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