From: Shanker Balan <shanu@exocore.com>
To: Linux-SCSI <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Seagate Cheetah: Firmware, Bugs, Compatibility?
Date: Sat, 4 Jan 2003 11:27:56 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030104055756.GA695@exocore.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <A5974D8E5F98D511BB910002A50A66470580D4EB@hdsmsx103.hd.intel.com>
Hello:
Cress, Andrew R wrote,
> We also had some problems with those same Atlas drives from
> Maxtor/Quantum. The B700 firmware seems to resolve the problems and
> we have been satisfied with it.
That's good news. Guess I will be spending the weekend flashing them.
> I have a Linux tool that should help you download the firmware images
> successfully. See http://scsirastools.sourceforge.net, and the tool
> is named sgdskfl. I put a copy of the B700 firmware out there and the
> firmware update procedure is documented in the UserGuide.
Thank you very much.
> Both Maxtor/Quantum and Seagate firmware images contain the model
> number of the disks that they are intended to be compatible with
> inside the image file. sgdskfl checks the model number against the
> image itself for safety.
Whew! :-D
> The Seagate firmware images I have I got via email from Seagate
> support.
Ok, will bug you in case I ever need them.
Thanx for your time Andrew, you have been very helpful.
-- Shanu
http://shankerbalan.com/
BTW: http://scsirastools.sourceforge.net is great. Wonder why I never
came across it before!!!
--
"Always try to do things in chronological order; it's less confusing
that way."
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-01-04 5:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-01-03 13:54 Seagate Cheetah: Firmware, Bugs, Compatibility? Cress, Andrew R
2003-01-04 5:57 ` Shanker Balan [this message]
2003-01-04 9:26 ` Mikael Abrahamsson
2003-01-04 22:23 ` Dan Jones
2003-01-06 10:30 ` Mikael Abrahamsson
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-01-06 15:51 Cress, Andrew R
2003-01-07 22:10 ` Mikael Abrahamsson
2003-01-08 8:15 ` Shanker Balan
2003-01-16 5:32 ` Shanker Balan
2003-01-03 7:02 Shanker Balan
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