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From: Chris Timmons <skynyrd@opus.cts.cwu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Automatic reboots: Leaves no trace?
Date: 7 Feb 1997 07:44:46 GMT
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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
^^^^
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