RE: Adding disk firmware programming capability to camcontrol

Hi,

Sorry for the late reply. As I mentioned in the man page, the fwdownload command currently only supports SCSI disks.

"fwdownload: Program firmware of the named <<SCSI>> device using the image file provided."

We have added firmware download command to atacontrol at work, for which I have attached a patch against 8.2 to this email.

The format of the command is similar to the camcontrol counterpart:

atacontrol fwdownload <device_name> <path_to_image_file>

But ultimately we would like to add the support to program ATA/SATA disks to camcontrol as well.


Nima Misaghian
nmisaghian_at_sandvine.com


> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-current_at_freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-
> current_at_freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Pegasus Mc Cleaft
> Sent: Sunday, November 20, 2011 9:55 AM
> To: freebsd-current_at_freebsd.org
> Cc: andre_at_albsmeier.net; Nima Misaghian
> Subject: Re: Adding disk firmware programming capability to camcontrol
> 
> Hi Nima,
> 
> 	I have tried your latest patch against current, but I am having
> difficulty
> getting it to work. I was wondering, is this feature limited to SCSI
> drives?
> I have been trying it against my SATA drives but it looks like it is
> failing
> on issuing a TUR.
> 
> IE:
> 
> feathers# camcontrol fwdownload ada5 -f JP0NB3MA.BD -s -v
> Running in simulation mode
> camcontrol: Device is not ready
> (pass5:ahcich4:0:0:0): TEST UNIT READY. CDB: 0 0 0 0 0 0
> (pass5:ahcich4:0:0:0): CAM status: CCB request was invalid
> Firmware download failed
> 
> 
> I have tried issuing a TUR to all my drives to see if it was controller
> or
> drive specific, but all of them return the same error (The drives are
> Seagate,
> Hitachi and WD).
> 
> What am I doing wrong?
> 
> Ta
> Peg
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