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From: "Brian N. Handy" <handy@sag.space.lockheed.com>
To: Joerg Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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Subject: Re: Exabyte Tape Drive Firmware
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I wrote:
> > * Apparently I can do periodic firmware updates to this beastie.  Is 
> > there any method within FreeBSD to do these firmware updates?

Joerg responded: 
> 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).

I just called TTI with this same question.  I'm not at all clear on if
I'll ever even have to do a firmware upgrade.  At any rate, the way they
said firmware updates are handled is just by spinning a special firmware
upgrade tape in the drive. 

I'm probably going to get this drive, I'll make a report later on how 
things are going.

Brian