Bryan Henderson wrote:
>
> >> Is it possible to download a drive firmware to a fibre channel
> >> drive (or even a scsi drive) through linux ?
> >Yes. It is one of the advertised features of the Scsi Command
> >Utility (scu). There is a Linux port. See:
> >http://www.bit-net.com/~rmiller/scu.html
>
> Isn't firmware usually distributed as a Windows program?
> Scu would be useless in that case, right?
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Drive vendor firmware utilities are all over the map. Some are DOS-
based, Windows-based, and some are proprietary i.e. Hitachi uses PTI.
The firmware itself is normally a file that is written to the device
via SCSI Write Buffer commands.
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