RE: SCSI problems with a 2650

Is there a firmware for seagate drives ST318453LC and
can you give us explicit details about firmware
upgrades .

thanks

--- Wojciech Zurek <WZurek-w6Ok/[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello
> 
> You cannot. There is no public available firmware
> for seagate disk. You should ask your hardware
> supplier for the firmware. 
> First of all download seatools enterprise from:
> http://www.seagate.com/support/seatools
> It work also on Linux (but you have to intall j2re.
> Also you have to be really carefoully when updating
> firmware (you can DESTROY your disk):
> 		- you cannot make an upgrade when disk are
> connected to RAID card - it has to be normal no SCSI
> controller (for me it is aic-7902 on Intel
> motherboard).
> 
> 		- you cannot upgrade disk wich is currently used
> as system disk
> 		- you should be extra carefouly wich selection of
> right firmware to your disks.
> 		- if you email me on priv I can give you some
> firmware (for 15K 18Gb, 15K 36Gb and 10K 36Gb hdds.
> 
> Generally all these problem occurs bacause of
> protocol error on SCSI bus in communication betwean
> Adaptec and Seagate. Also there was some problem
> with faulty disk in arrays. I had often situation
> when arrays was degraded because of disk
> failure...when I replaced disk and took "broken" one
> to my test server and test it all day using seatools
> under linux everything was ok with it...it just
> works. In my conclusion it is becasue there was some
> error in communication Adaptec <--> Seagate HDD.
> 
> 
> Hope that helps and have a nice day:
> Wojtek
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Hajek [mailto:david.hajek-aiBFbcymABNWk0Htik3J/[email protected]] 
> Sent: Friday, July 25, 2003 2:00 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: RE: SCSI problems with a 2650
> 
> Thanks, I will try to upgrade firmware. By the way -
> how/where can I get
> firmware for Seagate drives?
> 
> -David
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]] On
> Behalf Of Wojciech Zurek
> Sent: Friday, July 25, 2003 1:48 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: RE: SCSI problems with a 2650
> 
> 
> Hello
> 
> I'm not sure if this will help...but I have a lot of
> intel servers with
> adaptec 2120s and 2200 SCSI RAID cards...I had
> similar problem, local
> intel/adaptec equipment resseler told me that i
> shoul upgrade firmware on
> Adaptec card (to version 6003) and seagate hdds (to
> version 005). I have
> done it and for now problem does not exist...time
> will show...
> 
> Best Regards:
> Wojtek
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Hajek [mailto:david.hajek-aiBFbcymABNWk0Htik3J/[email protected]] 
> Sent: Friday, July 25, 2003 1:24 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: RE: SCSI problems with a 2650
> 
> I would say its not only the problem of the 2650,
> but I'm having same
> problems with 2120S.
> 
> -David
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]] On
> Behalf Of Russell Stuart
> Sent: Friday, July 25, 2003 3:01 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Cc: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: SCSI problems with a 2650
> 
> 
> On Tue, 2003-07-22 at 16:21, Russell Stuart wrote:
> > This is a long post because it represents 6 months
> worth of effort in
> > trying to solve the problem myself.  I have now
> decided its a hardware 
> > problem.  What I am after is confirmation, or
> failing that suggestions 
> > on what to do next.  Preferably this should come
> from someone with 
> > "@dell.com" or "@redhat.com" in their email
> address for reasons that 
> > will be obvious later.
> 
> Well, that was met with deathly silence - from dell
> and redhat anyway. 
> Given what Vincent said, I take it the situation is:
> 
>   1.  This is a common problem being experienced by
> a lot of 2650
>       users running Linux, and
> 
>   2.  No one knows what the cause is, ergo
> 
>   3.  No one has any idea how to solve it either.
> 
> Is that an accurate summary?
> 
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