Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1998 16:04:41 +0200 (CEST) From: Andre Albsmeier <andre.albsmeier@mchp.siemens.de> To: jak@cetlink.net (John Kelly) Cc: mcdougall@ameritech.net, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Atlas II firmware of death Message-ID: <199809261404.QAA08188@internal> In-Reply-To: <360affdb.141721920@mail.cetlink.net> from John Kelly at "Sep 25, 98 02:39:00 am"
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> On Thu, 24 Sep 1998 16:26:46 -0400, Adam McDougall > <mcdougall@ameritech.net> wrote: > > >> This looks like an "Atlas II firmware of death" problem > > > >I've tried many many times to update it, making sure im terminated > >correctly etc. I am using a sca to 68 pin converter on the atlas II, I > >hope that isn't causing any bother with this; Any time I'd attempt to > >update the firmware with either qshrldr or the other more fancy menuized > >program (both for dos) my drive would act like the power had been > >breifly lost, and go through the noises it makes during poweron. I've > >called Quantum about it and they basically can't offer help > > Sounds like the same problem I experienced. On my box with six Atlas > II drives I could successfully update the firmware on all drives > except the boot drive. I learned that I had to boot from a DOS floppy > and run the firmware update from A: (not from C:) to get the boot > drive to update properly. Hmm, last week I updated 9 Atlas II drives in 4 different machines and they all worked well (even when updating from C:) I used qshr_ldr3.exe and not qshr_ldr.exe... -Andre To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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