From owner-freebsd-isp Mon Aug 28 15:24: 2 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mail.fpsn.net (mail.fpsn.net [63.224.69.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DCF1B37B43C for ; Mon, 28 Aug 2000 15:23:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sharky (adsl-151-202-97-90.bellatlantic.net [151.202.97.90]) by mail.fpsn.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id QAA25881; Mon, 28 Aug 2000 16:25:29 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from simon@optinet.com) Message-Id: <200008282225.QAA25881@mail.fpsn.net> From: "Simon" To: "freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG" , "Jim Weeks" Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 18:27:34 -0400 Reply-To: "Simon" X-Mailer: PMMail 2000 Professional (2.10.2010) For Windows 2000 (5.0.2195) In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: untar compromises file system Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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: 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