Date: Thu, 16 May 1996 12:45:02 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: scsi@freebsd.org Cc: handy@sag.space.lockheed.com (Brian N. Handy) Subject: Re: Exabyte Tape Drive Firmware Message-ID: <199605161045.MAA01593@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.3.91.960514155210.16248X-100000@sag.space.lockheed.com> from "Brian N. Handy" at "May 14, 96 03:55:10 pm"
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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. ;-)
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