From owner-freebsd-scsi Thu May 16 04:01:32 1996 Return-Path: owner-freebsd-scsi Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id EAA18090 for freebsd-scsi-outgoing; Thu, 16 May 1996 04:01:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id EAA18057 for ; Thu, 16 May 1996 04:01:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id NAA19530; Thu, 16 May 1996 13:00:47 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id NAA15758; Thu, 16 May 1996 13:00:47 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.5/8.6.9) id MAA01593; Thu, 16 May 1996 12:45:03 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199605161045.MAA01593@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Exabyte Tape Drive Firmware To: scsi@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 16 May 1996 12:45:02 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: handy@sag.space.lockheed.com (Brian N. Handy) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: from "Brian N. Handy" at "May 14, 96 03:55:10 pm" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Brian N. Handy wrote: > I just called TTI with this same question. I'm not at all clear on if > I'll ever even have to do a firmware upgrade. At any rate, the way they > said firmware updates are handled is just by spinning a special firmware > upgrade tape in the drive. That's surprising. SCSI-2 has precautions for downloading firmware (it's done via a WRITE BUFFER command), so i wonder why they didn't pick this route? I know that at least the Exabyte 2502 drives do use WRITE BUFFER. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)