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Date:      Sun, 26 Nov 1995 04:04:54 +0200 (UKR)
From:      Dmitry Kohmanyuk <dk@mammoth.cs.kiev.ua>
To:        stesin@elvisti.kiev.ua (Andrew V. Stesin)
Cc:        hardware@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: About Conner and IBM SCSI HDDs (was: Re: your mail
Message-ID:  <199511260204.EAA22622@mammoth.cs.kiev.ua>
In-Reply-To: <199511260058.CAA03083@office.elvisti.kiev.ua> from "Andrew V. Stesin" at Nov 26, 95 02:58:43 am

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Sometimes, Andrew V. Stesin wrote:
> # In article <inj.10-30a91f80-2596@bee.cs.kiev.ua> 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 ;-)




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