Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2004 13:48:16 -0400 From: "Ketrien I. Saihr-Kesenchedra" <ketrien@error404.nls.net> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dell PERC RAID controller Message-ID: <6.1.1.1.2.20040723134345.02ce5508@error404.nls.net> In-Reply-To: <6.1.1.1.2.20040722220519.0951b4e0@localhost> References: <6.1.1.1.2.20040720145450.0604eb18@localhost> <20040721093433.68df6787@duality.bytephobia.de> <6.1.1.1.2.20040722220519.0951b4e0@localhost>
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At 12:12 AM 7/23/2004, you wrote: >Will there be a file there that's just a straight byte-by-byte image of >the sectors of a bootable upgrade floppy? (I hope so; in that case, I >could take it to nearly any machine -- including a DOS machine with >rawrite or fdimage -- and make a diskette.) There's probably not a boot image on the CD, if that's what you mena. However, if there's a binary image of the update, depending on how they did it, it should be easy enough to write an updater for FreeBSD. If it actually runs on the on-card processors, writing something to flash them under FreeBSD would be almost trivial. (The i960's just need to be reset, and then dump it into a specific register. ARMs should have a similar capability.) -Ketrien I. Saihr-Kesenchedra <ketrien AT error404 DOT nls DOT net> # Maybe this world is another planet's hell. --Aldous Huxley Feanor smiles, "We, of course, are enlightened and s/Maybe t/T"
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