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From: Richard B. Gilbert on 1 Feb 2010 20:54 Tim Bradshaw wrote: > On 2010-01-28 01:09:47 +0000, Richard B. Gilbert said: > >> I've been using various disk drives for the last twenty-five years or >> so and have NEVER needed to update the firmware on any of them! >> >> What problem are you trying to solve? > > Modern disk drives have a huge amount of software in them. Bugs in it > can entail things like the disk not writing data it said it did write, > or writing it to the wrong place. There can be good reasons for > updating it. > Ummm! Perhaps I should be grateful that most of my hardware could best be described as antiques! I don't recall hearing much of this sort of thing ten years ago. Where did we go wrong?
From: Michael Laajanen on 2 Feb 2010 17:30
Hi, Richard B. Gilbert wrote: > Tim Bradshaw wrote: >> On 2010-01-28 01:09:47 +0000, Richard B. Gilbert said: >> >>> I've been using various disk drives for the last twenty-five years or >>> so and have NEVER needed to update the firmware on any of them! >>> >>> What problem are you trying to solve? >> >> Modern disk drives have a huge amount of software in them. Bugs in it >> can entail things like the disk not writing data it said it did write, >> or writing it to the wrong place. There can be good reasons for >> updating it. >> > > Ummm! Perhaps I should be grateful that most of my hardware could best > be described as antiques! > > I don't recall hearing much of this sort of thing ten years ago. Where > did we go wrong? > C++ :) I remember when we tried a bare Ada compiler(Ada runtime no OS) and print a string took 60-70kB, we where shocked the VME space where 16MB and now you an have the VME space in a 2-level cache :) or should I say (: HW is the same with high level languages, but maybe we(I am such a guy) still have a little feeling for a flip-flip and a gate but not much :) /michael |