From: Vincent S. Cojot (coyote@step.polymtl.ca)
Date: Wed Sep 18 2002 - 07:26:19 EDT
Hello everyone,
Not asking for an official answer, of course, since this is more on the
"hacking" side but Just wondering if anyone had the same dilemma..
I have an early internal DLT8000 tape drive made by HP (it's a re-packaged
QUANTUM DLT8000 drive) that I'm using on a Sun Blade 2000 box. I got a
Flexipack to put the drive in and I would like to update the drive's
firmware to correct some problems. The issue that I'm pondering is: Do I use
the Sun dlt8k Firmware or do I use the HP-provided dlt8k firmware?
AFAIK, the Sun DLT8000 and the HP DLT8000 are the same hardware (They're
Quantum DLT8000 drives). Moreover, the firmware patches from both HP and SUN
look very similar:
HP (from the support site):
-rwxr--r-- 1 u1 users 1188928 Sep 18 11:11 ltt_dlt8000_v080_oem1.frm
Sun (from SUN patch 112067-01):
-rw-r--r-- root/other 1187840 2001-09-19 22:32 112067-01/D8OEM1.V80
They're different sizes but both of them say "V80" and "OEM1"...
I'm tempted to use the Sun FirmWare ever since I figured that Drives with
Sun firmwares are usually more compatible with Sun boxes and quicker than
generic drives (one HP DDS4 drive made by SUN and another of the same make
but bought from HP did not provide the same ufsdump throughput , even with
adapted jumper settings.. or perhaps that's just me..).
Any ideas/comments/etc??
Vincent S. Cojot, coyote@step.polymtl.ca
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