From owner-freebsd-scsi Tue May 14 15:52:30 1996 Return-Path: owner-freebsd-scsi Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id PAA18394 for freebsd-scsi-outgoing; Tue, 14 May 1996 15:52:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA18246 for ; Tue, 14 May 1996 15:51:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id AAA16323; Wed, 15 May 1996 00:51:03 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id AAA26444; Wed, 15 May 1996 00:51:02 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.5/8.6.9) id AAA02052; Wed, 15 May 1996 00:30:30 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199605142230.AAA02052@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Exabyte Tape Drive Firmware To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 15 May 1996 00:30:30 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: handy@sag.space.lockheed.com (Brian N. Handy) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: from "Brian N. Handy" at "May 14, 96 09:58:23 am" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Brian N. Handy wrote: > * Apparently I can do periodic firmware updates to this beastie. Is > there any method within FreeBSD to do these firmware updates? I once tried to upgrade the firmware for my Tandberg tape drive using scsi(8), but eventually gave up since the Tandberg seems to require getting everything in a single SCSI transfer, but our transfers are currently limited to 64 KB per SCSI command by physio(9). -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)