From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261552AbVGGSpl (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Jul 2005 14:45:41 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261569AbVGGSpl (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Jul 2005 14:45:41 -0400 Received: from web32605.mail.mud.yahoo.com ([68.142.207.232]:19108 "HELO web32605.mail.mud.yahoo.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S261552AbVGGSpj (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Jul 2005 14:45:39 -0400 Message-ID: <20050707184538.15647.qmail@web32605.mail.mud.yahoo.com> X-RocketYMMF: knobi.rm Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2005 11:45:38 -0700 (PDT) From: Martin Knoblauch Reply-To: knobi@knobisoft.de Subject: Re: [Hdaps-devel] RE: Head parking (was: IBM HDAPS things are looking up) To: Dave Hansen Cc: abonilla@linuxwireless.org, "'Pekka Enberg'" , Linux Kernel Mailing List , axboe@suse.de, "'Pekka Enberg'" , hdaps devel In-Reply-To: <1120757693.5829.34.camel@localhost> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --- Dave Hansen wrote: > On Thu, 2005-07-07 at 10:14 -0700, Martin Knoblauch wrote: > > Basically I saw that the only difference between me and Pekka was > the > > FW (discounting the different CPU speed and Kernel version). I > googled > > around and found the IBM FW page at: > > > > > http://www-306.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?sitestyle=ibm&lndocid=MIGR-41008 > > > > Download is simple, just don't use the "IBM Download Manager". > Main > > problem is that one needs a bootable floopy drive and "the other > OS" to > > create a bootable floppy. It would be great if IBM could provide > floppy > > images for use with "dd" for the poor Linux users. > > Did you really need to make 18 diskettes? > yikes - no !! :-) Somewhere on that page there is a table that tells you which of the 18 floppies is for your disk. In my case it was #13. > I have the feeling that this will work for many T4[012]p? users: > > http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=TPAD-HDFIRM > Yeah, I think that is the "DA" version. You still need "the other OS", although you don't need the floppy. If IBM would provide a CD image (bootable ISO) containing FW for all supported drives - that would be great. No need for the "other OS" any more. Cheers Martin ------------------------------------------------------ Martin Knoblauch email: k n o b i AT knobisoft DOT de www: http://www.knobisoft.de