Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2005 11:54:39 +1030 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Adaptec USB2Xchange Message-ID: <200501041154.51256.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20050103205820.GA74545@users.altadena.net> References: <20050103205820.GA74545@users.altadena.net>
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--nextPart3259999.9hXfszB5tT Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Tue, 4 Jan 2005 07:28, Pete Carah wrote: > I have reason to use a USB to SCSI adapter under FBSD. I have a > USB2Xchange from Adaptec, but (as usual for adaptec) it requires a firmwa= re > load, which appears harder in usb than in PCI. Does anyone know how to do > this? (Should we have a generic firmware loader similar in concept to the > ndis converter?) There is a USB firmware standard called DFU (Device Firmware Upgrade) which= =20 quite a nunmber of devices use (eg Atmel WiFi, Ti USB Audio, etc). I have a USB audio device that uses it but I haven't had much luck getting = the=20 USB stack to reprobe the device after it's been reprogrammed (I have to pul= l=20 the connector out enough that it disconnects the data lines but not enough = to=20 unpower it..) Unfortunatly it's hard to say if your device does DFU at all.. I would sugg= est=20 pulling it apart and trying to find data sheets on the chips in it. =2D-=20 Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C --nextPart3259999.9hXfszB5tT Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBB2fBj5ZPcIHs/zowRAg9CAJ92XfbRJR0t7/6EVmVjqn4IgexQvgCfY0QR 5Tf9DA1odYCILf26t2bTAPQ= =BYjV -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart3259999.9hXfszB5tT--
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