Date: Sat, 28 Dec 1996 09:11:45 -0500 (EST) From: "Michael L. Squires" <mikes@copper.ucs.indiana.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Firmware of Cheap DAT autoloaders Message-ID: <199612281411.JAA00255@copper.ucs.indiana.edu>
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After some discussion with Seagate technical services, which was quite helpful: the 4584NP and 4586NP DAT autoloaders from CSC and JEM (at least the ones we've seen) have not been updated by the vendor to the current firmware version. The upgrade is in the form of a DAT tape which upgrades the firware in flash memory. Seagate feels that the update is the vendor's responsibility but will ship the tape to a third-party customer on a case-by-case basis. The changers as shipped work with FreeBSD (2.1.6; AHA 1740A BIOS rev 1.35) but may be the source of catastrophic damage to mounted filesystems which occurs when a bad spot is found on the tape. They also work under NT 3.51 (sorry:-) ) but are picky about tapes; they work fine with ARCserve 5.01g under Novell 4.1 with patches (really sorry :-)). (This is apropos a message posted some time ago regarding these changers).
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