Thus spake Rodolfo: > | I've read a number of things about the need to upgrade my DAC960 card to > | 2.73 and my question is, how do I go about doing this? The firmware > | upgrade file that I found was an .EXE file, so I'm assuming that this is > | a DOS/Windows executable. Does this mean that I need to mount the DAC960 > | in a x86 box to perform the upgrade? Any help would be greatly > | appreciated as I recently came into 3 DEC Alpha 2100 boxes, each with a > | nice RAID array and an accompanying DAC960 card. > > well, i did it via the long route and had NT installed on the box. i > can dig up my notes on this and post the exact process, but you should > be able to switch over to alphabios (for those machines that have the > full ROM) and execute it from there. don't remember off the top of my > head right now if the 2100 has the full ROM, but i know the 4100s do. Yep, I've got a 2100 with a DAC960 in it, and it has both SRM and alphabios. Run the firmware upgrade from within the alphabios -- same thing for running the RCU (RAID configuration utility) -- Nathan Poznick <poznick@conwaycorp.net> Speaking much is a sign of vanity, for he that is lavish with words is a niggard in deed. - Sir Walter Raleigh
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