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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!lucy.swin.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au!news.apana.org.au!cantor.edge.net.au!news.teragen.com.au!news.access.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mel.aone.net.au!grumpy.fl.net.au!news.webspan.net!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!rill.news.pipex.net!pipex!uunet!in2.uu.net!198.68.191.16!news.accessone.com!news1.cstone.net!Skuzzy.cstone.net!not-for-mail From: Paul Nguyen <pauln@cstone.net> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Automatic reboots: Leaves no trace? Date: Fri, 07 Feb 1997 15:15:00 -0500 Organization: Cornerstone Networks Lines: 96 Message-ID: <32FB8D44.3F65@cstone.net> References: <32FA6F03.687A@cstone.net> <5ddujc$pmk@flea.best.net> <5demhe$da6@chester.cwu.edu> Reply-To: pauln@cstone.net NNTP-Posting-Host: gosub.cstone.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----------21A31188233B0" X-Sender: Paul Nguyen <pauln@cstone.net> (Unverified) X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.0b1 (Win95; I) X-Priority: Normal Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:35232 ------------21A31188233B0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Chris Timmons wrote: > > Look at your bootstrap messages [dmesg(8) will help if you haven't had > a busy message log] for the Quantum firmware revision: > > (ahc1:1:0): "Quantum XP34300W L915" type 0 fixed SCSI 2 > ^^^^ > Actually one of my drive sez Quantum XP34300W 589H and the other one sez Quantum XP34300W L912. Can I upgrade the one that sez 589H to L915? I know that L912 to L915. > If your drive is an Atlas-I like this and you are at L912, then > you should visit ftp.qntm.com for the firmware upgrade. I've > got to add that upgrading is at the very least inconvenient. > > You'll need to boot DOS and run an ASPI driver for your controller > in order for the DSP.EXE program from the ftp site to upgrade the > drive. Maybe I was doing something wrong, but DSP.EXE running from a > floppy was so slow I thought several times the machine had crashed - > and this was just trying to navigate around in the program! > > It did work, and I can no longer reproduce the crashes with L915 of > the firmware. Justin T. Gibbs of the FreeBSD project figured this > out and posted the information to the FreeBSD-curent mailing list > a couple of weeks ago. > > Hope this helps, > -Chris Thanks -Paul ------------21A31188233B0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii <HTML><BODY> <DT>Chris Timmons wrote:<BR> > <BR> > Look at your bootstrap messages [dmesg(8) will help if you haven't had<BR> > a busy message log] for the Quantum firmware revision:<BR> > <BR> > (ahc1:1:0): "Quantum XP34300W L915" type 0 fixed SCSI 2<BR> > ^^^^<BR> > <BR> Actually one of my drive sez Quantum XP34300W 589H and the other one sez Quantum XP34300W L912.</DT> <DT> </DT> <DT>Can I upgrade the one that sez 589H to L915? I know that L912 to L915.</DT> <DT> </DT> <DT>> If your drive is an Atlas-I like this and you are at L912, then<BR> > you should visit ftp.qntm.com for the firmware upgrade. I've<BR> > got to add that upgrading is at the very least inconvenient.<BR> > <BR> > You'll need to boot DOS and run an ASPI driver for your controller<BR> > in order for the DSP.EXE program from the ftp site to upgrade the<BR> > drive. Maybe I was doing something wrong, but DSP.EXE running from a<BR> > floppy was so slow I thought several times the machine had crashed -<BR> > and this was just trying to navigate around in the program!<BR> > <BR> > It did work, and I can no longer reproduce the crashes with L915 of<BR> > the firmware. Justin T. Gibbs of the FreeBSD project figured this<BR> > out and posted the information to the FreeBSD-curent mailing list<BR> <BR> > a couple of weeks ago.<BR> > <BR> > Hope this helps,<BR> > -Chris</DT> <DT>Thanks</DT> <DT>-Paul</DT> </BODY> </HTML> ------------21A31188233B0--