From owner-freebsd-scsi Mon Dec 21 16:36:48 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA20184 for freebsd-scsi-outgoing; Mon, 21 Dec 1998 16:36:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp04.wxs.nl (smtp04.wxs.nl [195.121.6.59]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA20179 for ; Mon, 21 Dec 1998 16:36:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from asmodai@wxs.nl) Received: from chronias.ninth-circle.org ([195.121.57.219]) by smtp04.wxs.nl (Netscape Messaging Server 3.6) with ESMTP id AAA5B75; Mon, 21 Dec 1998 22:14:12 +0100 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <199812210302.UAA94802@panzer.plutotech.com> Date: Wed, 21 Jan 1998 22:20:35 +0100 (CET) Organization: Ninth Circle Enterprises From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai To: "Kenneth D. Merry" Subject: Re: Problem with SCSI-bus and high diskaccess? Cc: freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG, skynyrd@opus.cts.cwu.edu Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 21-Dec-98 Kenneth D. Merry wrote: > Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai wrote... >> On 20-Dec-98 Chris Timmons wrote: >> As I said, the memory is fine, I never got SIG 11's, plus it has been tested >> recently. I reseated all the crap that can be reseated =) > > Good idea. If you've got a second machine, it might be worthwhile to setup > a serial console to catch any error messages that are printed out. I find > it quite helpful with one of my machines at home. (I was having NMI > problems, generally while in X, but I couldn't figure out exactly why until > I put a serial console on the box. It turned out that although I was > within the specs as far as the number of memory chips per SIMM, I was > probably was probably what? =) I will try to get this spare 486 up and running... >> And offcourse... Fireballs don't have firmware updates =\ >> >> ftp://ftp.quantum.com/Disk_Firmware/ > > Bummer. You might want to talk to Quantum about it...more below. > > I know there is later firmware than that for the Fireball ST. I believe > the drives we have at work that "work" have the 0F0J firmware revision. > (the machine with the drives in question is down at the moment, so I can't > check to be sure) Try calling Quantum Tech support and see if you can > get them to give you a newer firmware revision. I am going to try this, if the US didn't decide on dropping some major SAPs so that quantum.com was unreachable =\ --- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven Life is the only Pain asmodai(at)wxs.nl we endeavour... Network/Security Specialist BSD & picoBSD: The Power to Serve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message