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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."

  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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