RE:Re: ide drive dying?

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Why don't IBM do a Linux version? Don't they have a linux firmware utility? I thought IBM had a campaign to support linux...

Thanks. Regards, Dean McEwan. OpenModemTalk creator.

On 	Sat, 7 Sep 2002 19:19:21 -0400 (EDT) 	David Forrest <[e-mail]> wrote:

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On Sat, 7 Sep 2002 [e-mail] wrote:

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> Here is the URL:
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> http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-39082
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> it expressly states that the firmware is intended for the DTLA-307060.

The firmware update is for many more drives than that, My own

     Model=IBM-DTLA-305040, FwRev=TW4OA60A

is also recommended, as well as many with a FwRev=xxxOyzzz with zzz<66A.
Now i have to find a windows machine to try it out on...

Dave,

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