Re: [Hdaps-devel] RE: Head parking (was: IBM HDAPS things arelooking up)

From: Dave Hansen
Date: Thu Jul 07 2005 - 12:43:23 EST


On Thu, 2005-07-07 at 10:14 -0700, Martin Knoblauch wrote:
> Basically I saw that the only difference between me and Pekka was the
> FW (discounting the different CPU speed and Kernel version). I googled
> around and found the IBM FW page at:
>
> http://www-306.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?sitestyle=ibm&lndocid=MIGR-41008
>
> Download is simple, just don't use the "IBM Download Manager". Main
> problem is that one needs a bootable floopy drive and "the other OS" to
> create a bootable floppy. It would be great if IBM could provide floppy
> images for use with "dd" for the poor Linux users.

Did you really need to make 18 diskettes?

I have the feeling that this will work for many T4[012]p? users:

http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=TPAD-HDFIRM

-- Dave

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