From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261523AbVGGRi2 (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Jul 2005 13:38:28 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261321AbVGGRfd (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Jul 2005 13:35:33 -0400 Received: from blackbird.sr71.net ([64.146.134.44]:64386 "EHLO blackbird.sr71.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261538AbVGGRez (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Jul 2005 13:34:55 -0400 Subject: Re: [Hdaps-devel] RE: Head parking (was: IBM HDAPS things are looking up) From: Dave Hansen To: knobi@knobisoft.de Cc: abonilla@linuxwireless.org, "'Pekka Enberg'" , Linux Kernel Mailing List , axboe@suse.de, "'Pekka Enberg'" , hdaps devel In-Reply-To: <20050707171434.90546.qmail@web32604.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <20050707171434.90546.qmail@web32604.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 07 Jul 2005 10:34:53 -0700 Message-Id: <1120757693.5829.34.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.4 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 2005-07-07 at 10:14 -0700, Martin Knoblauch wrote: > Basically I saw that the only difference between me and Pekka was the > FW (discounting the different CPU speed and Kernel version). I googled > around and found the IBM FW page at: > > http://www-306.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?sitestyle=ibm&lndocid=MIGR-41008 > > Download is simple, just don't use the "IBM Download Manager". Main > problem is that one needs a bootable floopy drive and "the other OS" to > create a bootable floppy. It would be great if IBM could provide floppy > images for use with "dd" for the poor Linux users. Did you really need to make 18 diskettes? I have the feeling that this will work for many T4[012]p? users: http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=TPAD-HDFIRM -- Dave