From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 19 11:38:18 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id LAA18836 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 19 Mar 1995 11:38:18 -0800 Received: from zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za (zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za [146.64.24.58]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id LAA18830 for ; Sun, 19 Mar 1995 11:38:12 -0800 Received: (from jhay@localhost) by zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za (8.6.11/8.6.6) id VAA10473; Sun, 19 Mar 1995 21:33:52 +0200 From: John Hay Message-Id: <199503191933.VAA10473@zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za> Subject: Re: conner 1GB drive To: rcarter@geli.com (Russell L. Carter) Date: Sun, 19 Mar 1995 21:33:52 +0200 (SAT) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199503191905.LAA13699@geli.clusternet> from "Russell L. Carter" at Mar 19, 95 11:05:54 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1267 Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > Hi all, > Conner 1GB scsi drives are cheap. They also are apparantly buggy. > There also is supposed to be a fix. So... has anybody got these > drives to work with FreeBSD 2+? What did you have to do? > Many thanks, > Russell > Not all of them has bugs only microcode revisions 1.62/1.66 and 1.68. There is a fix. I got it from Soenke Behrens (Soenke.BEHRENS@conner.com). They were very helpfull. I'm not allowed to send it to anybody, according to the README files and things they send me. Here is a piece of the message which says what information they need: there is indeed a fix available for users with a CFP1060x (microcode revision 1.62/1.66/1.68) and Linux. To apply the upgrade, you will need a DOS boot disk and ASPI drivers that can access your hard drive. If you are confident that you can do the upgrade yourself, please send us E-Mail with your full name, daytime telephone number and microcode revision of your disk (9WA1.6x), and we will send you the upgrade package as a file attach. Before the upgrade I got filesystem corruptions when doing large filesystem transactions like extracting tar files or restoring a disk from tape. After the upgrade I had no further problems.... yet:) -- John Hay -- jhay@mikom.csir.co.za