Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 18:27:34 -0400 From: "Simon" <simon@optinet.com> To: "freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG>, "Jim Weeks" <jim@siteplus.net> Subject: Re: untar compromises file system Message-ID: <200008282225.QAA25881@mail.fpsn.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0008281801290.587-100000@veager.siteplus.net>
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Unfortunately, no. The only way to upgrade is to boot into windows 9.x / NTx and do it from there; the utility that does the actual upgrading only runs in windows :( What you can do is turn the write cache off which should fix it too as I was told, but I went for the upgrade. Search the archive for turning write cache off. -Simon On Mon, 28 Aug 2000 18:08:44 +0000 (GMT), Jim Weeks wrote: > >On Mon, 28 Aug 2000, Simon wrote: > >> Hello Jim, >> >> I've had the same problem with Barracuda too (9/18 gigers). I wasn't using Mylex controller, though; so this could be not >> it. Anyhow, show us the probing for this drive from dmsg. If the firmware is 0005, then you need to upgrade it to 0010. >> That hopefully will fix the problem. It did for me. Thanks goes to Mike Smith for pointing it out to me. > >It appears to be 004. > >da1: <SEAGATE ST39236LW 0004> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-3 device >da1: 20.000MB/s transfers (10.000MHz, offset 15, 16bit), Tagged Queueing >Enabled >da1: 8761MB (17942584 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 1116C) > >Is there a quick and simple way to upgrade the firmware without actually >going to the machine? > >Thanks, > >-- >Jim Weeks > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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