Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Qlogic/FC firmware | From | Jes Sorensen <> | Date | 22 Aug 2001 15:15:45 +0200 |
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>>>>> "Matthew" == Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> writes:
Matthew> It's not just a question of having firmware updated into Matthew> flash- which, btw, companies like Veritas have shied away Matthew> from getting custoemrs to do because you *do* have a small Matthew> but finite amount of risk updating flash. It's also code that Matthew> as yet has to be written for qlogicfc (e.g.) that would pull Matthew> it *out* of flash so it can be pushed into SRAM (which is Matthew> what the BIOS code on other platforms do).
Yeah vendors tend to like this idea, it's not just Veritas and QLogic who went down this path, unfortunately.
Updating the flash does seem very easy, and the good thing about the QLA adapters is that you can reflash even if you screwed up in the first place. Yup I tried that ;) Writing the flash utility seems like a piece of cake in this as well. What doesn't look as easy is to figure out that directory structure of the firmware images ;-( Any chance you got some data on that?
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