From: Ed Lawson (wlawson@gmu.edu)
Date: Sat Mar 13 2004 - 15:38:54 EST
Sorry, this is long overdue, but I still wanted to post it.
First Problem:
>I'm at my wits end on this one. Solaris Patch 111649 comes with the
>optdload application, which is supposed to download firmware onto the
>Toshiba SD-M1401 DVD-ROM drive. (Which is the drive that I have in
>several machines.)
>
>So, I downloaded the patch, installed it on the box with the Toshiba
>drive and attempted to run the optdload command with the -l flag (which
>is supposed to list the 'downloadable' devices.) optdload reports that
>no downloadable devices are available. OK, so I tried to force it with
>the -d command (optdload -d /dev/rdsk/c0t6d0s2), optdload reports that
>identified device is not downloadable. Anybody have any ideas on this?
>Has anybody been able to get this to work properly?
Some great responses to this one (thanks):
With regards to the patch problem, the consensus seemed to be a vold problem
(Thanks to Casper Dik and Julie Baumler).
However, vold was stopped on my system. Luc Suryo suggested (and I agree
with him) that the patch installer displays the wrong error message if the
firmware upgrade is not needed.
Second Problem:
>The second question is if I cannot get optdload to work properly, is
>there some other way that I can check the firmware revision on the DVD-ROM
drive?
There turns out to be a lot of ways to get the the firmware revision.
1. Casper Dik recommended using iostat -E
2. Julie Baumler recommended
> Firmware revisions for most devices can be found using one or more of the
following:
> prtconf -pv
> or some combination of:
>
> luxadm probe (to list devices)
> luxadm -v inquiry <device>
> luxadm -v dislay <device>
3. Luc I. Suryo recommended using cdrecord -scanbus
All of these worked well, and it turned out that I already had the latest
firmware revision.
Thanks again to Casper, Julie and Luc and sorry for the late summary.
-Ed
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