From owner-freebsd-current Sat Sep 26 07:05:00 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA05516 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sat, 26 Sep 1998 07:05:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from david.siemens.de (david.siemens.de [192.35.17.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA05502 for ; Sat, 26 Sep 1998 07:04:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from andre.albsmeier@mchp.siemens.de) X-Envelope-Sender-Is: andre.albsmeier@mchp.siemens.de (at relayer david.siemens.de) Received: from mail.siemens.de (salomon.siemens.de [139.23.33.13]) by david.siemens.de (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id QAA11134 for ; Sat, 26 Sep 1998 16:04:41 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from curry.mchp.siemens.de (daemon@curry.mchp.siemens.de [146.180.31.23]) by mail.siemens.de (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id QAA02692 for ; Sat, 26 Sep 1998 16:04:42 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by curry.mchp.siemens.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA24469 for ; Sat, 26 Sep 1998 16:04:43 +0200 (CEST) From: Andre Albsmeier Message-Id: <199809261404.QAA08188@internal> Subject: Re: Atlas II firmware of death In-Reply-To: <360affdb.141721920@mail.cetlink.net> from John Kelly at "Sep 25, 98 02:39:00 am" To: jak@cetlink.net (John Kelly) Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1998 16:04:41 +0200 (CEST) Cc: mcdougall@ameritech.net, current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL40 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > On Thu, 24 Sep 1998 16:26:46 -0400, Adam McDougall > wrote: > > >> This looks like an "Atlas II firmware of death" problem > > > >I've tried many many times to update it, making sure im terminated > >correctly etc. I am using a sca to 68 pin converter on the atlas II, I > >hope that isn't causing any bother with this; Any time I'd attempt to > >update the firmware with either qshrldr or the other more fancy menuized > >program (both for dos) my drive would act like the power had been > >breifly lost, and go through the noises it makes during poweron. I've > >called Quantum about it and they basically can't offer help > > Sounds like the same problem I experienced. On my box with six Atlas > II drives I could successfully update the firmware on all drives > except the boot drive. I learned that I had to boot from a DOS floppy > and run the firmware update from A: (not from C:) to get the boot > drive to update properly. Hmm, last week I updated 9 Atlas II drives in 4 different machines and they all worked well (even when updating from C:) I used qshr_ldr3.exe and not qshr_ldr.exe... -Andre To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message