From owner-freebsd-current Thu Sep 24 19:28:40 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA09211 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Thu, 24 Sep 1998 19:28:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns2.cetlink.net (ns2.cetlink.net [209.198.2.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA09193 for ; Thu, 24 Sep 1998 19:28:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jak@cetlink.net) Received: from EXIT10 (i485-gw.cetlink.net [209.198.15.97]) by ns2.cetlink.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id WAA15617; Thu, 24 Sep 1998 22:28:15 -0400 (EDT) From: jak@cetlink.net (John Kelly) To: Adam McDougall Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Atlas II firmware of death Date: Fri, 25 Sep 1998 02:39:00 GMT Message-ID: <360affdb.141721920@mail.cetlink.net> References: <199809241701.LAA01778@narnia.plutotech.com> <360AAB06.B628D775@ameritech.net> In-Reply-To: <360AAB06.B628D775@ameritech.net> X-Mailer: Forte Agent 1.5/32.451 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id TAA09200 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 24 Sep 1998 16:26:46 -0400, Adam McDougall 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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message