On Mon, 19 Aug 1996, my question was:
> Is the last firmware for DEC RZ disks available by FTP on Internet ?
Thanks to
Jeff Higgins <HIGGINS_at_aces.k12.ct.us>
Doug Gould <dgj_at_omega.rtpnc.epa.gov>
They suggested to me to see in
ftp://ftp.digital.com/pub/Digital/Alpha/firmware/v3.6/
There are Firmwares for Alphas systems et turboChannel Options
but not for disks ! Even so, it's a very interesting URL.
Christophe Wolfhugel <wolf_at_pasteur.fr>
He advised me to upgrade very bugged firmware 0007 of RZ28 disk
to the last release.
Kurt Carlson <SXKAC_at_orca.alaska.edu>
who sent me this answer :
> Short answer: No.
>
> Longer answer:
> To digitial field service it is network available, to customers it's not.
> It's extremely difficult to get release notes for any of it.
> Documentation on when and why to do them is spotty. Do pay attention
> to the warnings to back up your disks before attempting an upgrade...
> I upgraded around 100 disks earlier in the summer and had 3 failures
> in the process which fried the disks (I had backed them up).
>
> I'll attach a matrix of current releases to this message.
>
> * * *
> 960707kc disk_fw/versions from fwmatrix.txt 07/1996
> ______________________________________________________________________________
> Latest Firmware FW Image Filename
> Drive Revision (older rev#s) available on BABAGI::
> ============== ====================== ==============================
>
> RZ25 0A00 Not Available
> RZ25L 0008 (0006,0007) RZ25L_DEC_0008.LOD
> RZ25M 0831 RZ25M_DEC_0831.LOD
>
> RZ26 T392A (T387,T392) RZ26_T392A_DEC.FUP
> RZ26J (N,W) 589U N/A RZ26J_589U_DEC.FUP *
> RZ26L (N) 442D (440C) RZ26L_442D_DEC.FUP
> RZ26L (W) 442E N/A RZ26L_442E_DEC.FUP +
> RZ26N (N,W) 0616 (0466,0568) RZ26N_DEC_0616.LOD
>
> RZ27 T436A (T424,T427) RZ27_T436A_DEC.FUP
>
> RZ28 (N) p5,p6 442D (441C,D41C) RZ28_442D_DEC.FUP
> RZ28 (N) p4 442C (T436,T435) RZ28P4_442C_DEC.FUP
> RZ28 (W) 442E N/A RZ28_442E_DEC.FUP +
> RZ28B 0006 (0003) RZ28B_DEC_0006.LOD
> RZ28C (N,W) 8104 (0011,8101) RZ28C_DEC_8104.LOD *
> RZ28D (N,W) 0008 N/A RZ28D_DEC_0008.LOD
> RZ28J (N,W) 589U N/A RZ28J_DEC_589U.LOD *
> RZ28M (N,W) 0616 (466,568) RZ28M_DEC_0616.LOD
>
> X(kc) RZ29B (N,W) 0014 (0006,0007) RZ29B_DEC_0014.LOD
> |(kc) RZ29B 0016
> RZ29C (N,W) 9103 (0011,9101) RZ29C_DEC_9103.LOD *
>
> RZ73 (N) T392 RZ73_T392_DEC.FUP
> RZ74 p5,p6 T427N RZ74_T427N_DEC.FUP +
> RZ74 p7 T436A RZ74_T436A_DEC.FUP
>
> EZ51R 098 (089) ESP5XX_V098_DEC.FUP
> EZ54R 098 (089) ESP5XX_V098_DEC.FUP
> EZ58R 109 (089,098) ESP5XX_V109_DEC.FUP
>
> Key;
>
> * = revision or device not yet shipping, code not online.
> + = device firmware not put in directory yet. will be as soon as I get
> the time/file.\
> N = narrow only
> W = wide only
> pX = Module revision restriction (p5 = 54-xxxxx-05, p6 = 54-xxxxx-06, etc)
>
> All these files are located on BABAGI::LCA:[SPECS...]
> Firmware files with * are just finishing qual and will be online soon.
>
So, I called my DEC support and I received firmware files for RZ2x :
rz25l_dec_0008.lod rz25m_dec_0831.lod rz26_t392a_dec.fup
rz26l_442d_dec.fup rz26m_dec_0002.lod rz26n_dec_0616.lod
rz27_t436a_dec.fup rz28_442d_dec.fup rz28b_dec_0006.lod
rz28c_dec_8104.lod rz28d_dec_0008.lod rz28m_dec_0616.lod
rz28p4_442c_dec.fup rz28w_442e_dec.fup rz29b_dec_0016.lod
rz29c_dec_9103.lod
Be Careful ! There are two different firmware releases for RZ28
and RZ74 disks according to Module Revision !
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Received on Mon Aug 26 1996 - 19:35:15 NZST