From owner-freebsd-current Thu Apr 29 14:20:23 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from uni4nn.gn.iaf.nl (osmium.gn.iaf.nl [193.67.144.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4355F14F35 for ; Thu, 29 Apr 1999 14:20:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wilko@yedi.iaf.nl) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by uni4nn.gn.iaf.nl (8.9.2/8.9.2) with UUCP id WAA19776; Thu, 29 Apr 1999 22:53:49 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from wilko@localhost) by yedi.iaf.nl (8.9.3/8.6.12) id WAA12290; Thu, 29 Apr 1999 22:26:36 +0200 (CEST) From: Wilko Bulte Message-Id: <199904292026.WAA12290@yedi.iaf.nl> Subject: Re: Further on tape & CAM problems In-Reply-To: <19990429072317.A84044@luke.pmr.com> from Bob Willcox at "Apr 29, 1999 7:23:17 am" To: bob@pmr.com Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 22:26:36 +0200 (CEST) Cc: cjohnson@neunacht.netgsi.com, shocking@prth.pgs.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Organisation: Private FreeBSD site - Arnhem, The Netherlands X-pgp-info: PGP public key at 'finger wilko@freefall.freebsd.org' X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL43 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG As Bob Willcox wrote ... > On Wed, Apr 28, 1999 at 08:45:36PM +0200, Wilko Bulte wrote: > > > > Exabyte is not particularly famous for stable firmware. > > I have quite a number of 8200's here (though I don't really use them > much anymore since I now have a Mammoth) that I have installed new > firmware in. From an email discussion with an Exabyte tech support > person back in '93 (I believe it was), the latest level of firmware in Well, you sent it to me in March 1995 (just found the original email ;-) > shipping 8200's (this was right at their end-of-life) was: > > MX: 2680 > SV: C034 > > This is for generic models. OEM models may have different versions > due to customizations. And these are not recommended for general use. I have a second Exaybyte drive here, I could try to see what firmware that one has and if I can get it to fail. Groeten / Cheers, | / o / / _ Arnhem, The Netherlands - Powered by FreeBSD - |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte WWW : http://www.tcja.nl http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message