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From: Stuart Anderson on 27 Jan 2010 12:02 I would like to update the firmware on some Sun SSD drives, however, all the links from the corresponding patch, http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-21-143211-01-1 appear to be broken, e.g., the firmware update tool and further documentation. Is this working for anyone else? Thanks.
From: Richard B. Gilbert on 27 Jan 2010 20:09 Stuart Anderson wrote: > I would like to update the firmware on some Sun SSD drives, however, all > the links from the corresponding patch, > http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-21-143211-01-1 > appear to be broken, e.g., the firmware update tool and further > documentation. > > Is this working for anyone else? > > Thanks. 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?
From: stuart on 27 Jan 2010 22:49 On Jan 27, 5:09 pm, "Richard B. Gilbert" <rgilber...(a)comcast.net> wrote: > Stuart Anderson wrote: > > I would like to update the firmware on some Sun SSD drives, however, all > > the links from the corresponding patch, > >http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-21-143211-01-1 > > appear to be broken, e.g., the firmware update tool and further > > documentation. > > > Is this working for anyone else? > > > Thanks. > > 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? I would like to preserve my data and maintain reasonable performance. Note, SSD drives are quite a bit different than their spinning predecessors. At any rate, I was able to figure out the right URL's that should have been in the patch description.
From: Michael Laajanen on 29 Jan 2010 14:27 HI, Richard B. Gilbert wrote: > Stuart Anderson wrote: >> I would like to update the firmware on some Sun SSD drives, however, all >> the links from the corresponding patch, >> http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-21-143211-01-1 >> appear to be broken, e.g., the firmware update tool and further >> documentation. >> >> Is this working for anyone else? >> >> Thanks. > > 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! > Usually people know about firmware updates, on Suns we update openboot and the PC guys update BIOS all the time but drives have been a little bit secret. If you have Sun/DEC/IBM/HP and the likes drives it is usually part of the normal update procedure the same goes to CDROM drives. But time changes, SSD drives are a totally different kind of drive that a harddrive, its all software that controlles the drive and these are really new devices that are a long long way from ready for replace hard drives without any software changes. This all means that the vendors tries to enhance and enhance the drives to behave as we expect them to, so get used to firmware updates of SSD for the comming 5 years :) Today they suck in a WS or server if you are used to a harddrives predictive performance. > What problem are you trying to solve? /michael
From: Tim Bradshaw on 1 Feb 2010 18:58
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. |