| Title: | DIGITAL UNIX (FORMERLY KNOWN AS DEC OSF/1) |
| Notice: | Welcome to the Digital UNIX Conference |
| Moderator: | SMURF::DENHAM |
| Created: | Thu Mar 16 1995 |
| Last Modified: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 10068 |
| Total number of notes: | 35879 |
Is it possible to access and upgrade disk firmware using SCU
to drives connected to a PMAZC-AA on a TURBOCHANNEL adapter
of a DEC 3000-800.
Is it legal to connect a TLZ7L to a PMAZC-AA if so I would be
grateful for the required revisions.
regards
tony melling
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| 9628.1 | SSDEVO::ROLLOW | Dr. File System's Home for Wayward Inodes. | Mon Apr 28 1997 03:24 | 16 | |
re: TLZ7L The base operating system doesn't have any support for media changers. As a sequential loader you can load the "next" tape by taking the one in the drive offline with the mt(1) command. For random access you need a product that offers this support; MRU or Networker. The MRU SPD probably requires 4BQx and later firmware revisions. The 4BQ family is for one model, and the 5xxx versions for the other vendor model; there were two. I think 5550 is the version on one of ours. I regularly use a TLZ7L connected to the built-in adapter of the DEC 3000 family. This is very similar to the PMAZx pair. | |||||
| 9628.2 | you should be able to upgrade the firmware... | NNTPD::"[email protected]" | Farrell Woods | Mon Apr 28 1997 11:29 | 13 |
Actually I thought the DAT's were upgraded by means of a specially formatted tape that you simply insert into the drive. If the drive survives the update it spits the tape out in a couple of moments and you're done. The PMAZB and PMAZC adaptors use the same chip as the 400/500 and 600/800/900 respectively (NCR 53C94 and 53C96.) I don't recall any problems with scu's "download" command on these adaptors. I think the only time this was an issue was on HSZ's... -- Farrell [Posted by WWW Notes gateway] | |||||