From owner-freebsd-hardware Sat Nov 25 18:19:27 1995 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id SAA04778 for hardware-outgoing; Sat, 25 Nov 1995 18:19:27 -0800 Received: from relay5.UU.NET (relay5.UU.NET [192.48.96.15]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id SAA04770 for ; Sat, 25 Nov 1995 18:19:23 -0800 Received: from uucp6.UU.NET by relay5.UU.NET with SMTP id QQzrlp29748; Sat, 25 Nov 1995 21:19:14 -0500 (EST) Received: from uanet.UUCP by uucp6.UU.NET with UUCP/RMAIL ; Sat, 25 Nov 1995 21:19:15 -0500 Received: by crocodil.monolit.kiev.ua; Sun, 26 Nov 95 04:16:43 +0200 Received: by mammoth.cs.kiev.ua (8.6.8.1/8.5) id EAA22622; Sun, 26 Nov 1995 04:04:54 +0200 From: Dmitry Kohmanyuk Message-Id: <199511260204.EAA22622@mammoth.cs.kiev.ua> Subject: Re: About Conner and IBM SCSI HDDs (was: Re: your mail To: stesin@elvisti.kiev.ua (Andrew V. Stesin) Date: Sun, 26 Nov 1995 04:04:54 +0200 (UKR) Cc: hardware@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199511260058.CAA03083@office.elvisti.kiev.ua> from "Andrew V. Stesin" at Nov 26, 95 02:58:43 am X-Motto: Do not believe in miracles - rely on them. X-Uptime: 4:04am up 1 day, 16:12, 7 users, load average: 4.65, 4.21, 4.06 Reply-To: dk+@ua.net X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL22 dk8] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-hardware@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Sometimes, Andrew V. Stesin wrote: > # In article you wrote: > # > What you say about 1060S is no longer true. 1060S > # > are shipped with a good firmvare at least for some months. > # > They do not need any upgrade and works good as I can see > # > (comparatively fast; no errors or failures yet), but a bit noisy. > # > # which version of firmware needs to be upgrade, exactly? > > Anything below 203C AFAIR hmm. My drive has the following on it: top (where the label is): BW993FC CFP1060S SSP-01 9WA2.66R1 <- is that firmware version (2.66R1?) J35113 503 SG3 <- smaller print - serial numbers?? on the bottom, it has two chips on sockets (look like flash ROMs), with paper stickers on them, which read: 9WS 9WA <- chip no.? 0.24 2.66R1 <- version? CD00 b B3CC c <- checksum / ?? > That's bad. But I'd bet you don't need flash PROM upgrade, > and that's good. probably. the README file on Conner upgrade floppy says that any of CFP1060 series w/firmware 9WA 1.62, 1.66, 1.68 could (and should) be upgraded. The 1.60 could be upgraded only at Conner's site. Btw, they say that problem was manifested itself under Linux ;-) (lead to filesystem corruption under heavy disk use) Should we add this info to HW compatibility guide? > Yes, really. The jumpers on that interface part are for > SCSI ID and so called "delay start" (who needs this?) _ONLY_. > Terminator can be disabled only physically ;-) you know this > already. So sharp your axe!!! :-) gonna do _real_ hacking w/soldering iron ;-)