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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

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