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Date:      Wed, 15 May 1996 00:30:30 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org
Cc:        handy@sag.space.lockheed.com (Brian N. Handy)
Subject:   Re: Exabyte Tape Drive Firmware
Message-ID:  <199605142230.AAA02052@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.3.91.960514095314.16248H@sag.space.lockheed.com> from "Brian N. Handy" at "May 14, 96 09:58:23 am"

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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. ;-)



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