From owner-freebsd-scsi Wed Nov 20 2:29:51 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6EF5237B401 for ; Wed, 20 Nov 2002 02:29:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from goliath.siemens.de (goliath.siemens.de [192.35.17.28]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B626043E6E for ; Wed, 20 Nov 2002 02:29:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from andre.albsmeier@mchp.siemens.de) Received: from mail3.siemens.de (mail3.siemens.de [139.25.208.14]) by goliath.siemens.de (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id gAKATfg28184; Wed, 20 Nov 2002 11:29:41 +0100 (MET) Received: from curry.mchp.siemens.de (curry.mchp.siemens.de [139.25.42.7]) by mail3.siemens.de (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id gAKATeU03083; Wed, 20 Nov 2002 11:29:41 +0100 (MET) Received: (from localhost) by curry.mchp.siemens.de (8.12.6/8.12.6) id gAKATeWt067854; Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 11:29:40 +0100 From: Andre Albsmeier To: "Michael L. Squires" Cc: FreeBSD SCSI Subject: Re: Initializing SCSI drive ST15150W Message-ID: <20021120112940.A68686@curry.mchp.siemens.de> References: <200211190701.gAJ71Nns007179@uriah.heep.sax.de> <200211191741.gAJHf86Y009010@siralan.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <200211191741.gAJHf86Y009010@siralan.org>; from mikes@siralan.org on Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 12:41:08PM -0500 X-Echelon: jihad, 707, detonator, KLM, Osama Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 19-Nov-2002 at 12:41:08 -0500, Michael L. Squires wrote: > > ISTR that you can patch the sym driver to not complain about > > this. However, last time we've been discussing it, it turned > > out that this is usually an indication of a firmware bug in the > > drive. Is it possible for you to upgrade the drive firmware? > > Seagate does not usually allow end-users to update firmware. Hmm, I have received several firmware images from Seagate already. I have been in contact with them using the company email address as well as with my private address. In both cases, they were very helpful and responded very quickly. BTW, I have two firmware images for the ST15150N (!W). The first one brings it two something like V 1.24. The second one takes it to V 2.23. I have not been able to beam my old V 1.xx directly to 2.23; I had to install the 1.24 first. > SCSITOOL can update firmware and the author indicates that he > does have some Seagate firmware updates: I have written a small tool for FreeBSD which does this for SCSI devices. Yes, I updated my ST15150N with it years ago. In case s.o. is interested drop me a note. -Andre To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message