Re: Firewire drives

[Mark Knecht <mknecht controlnet com>]

Mark Knecht wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-02-24 at 17:52, Michael Ault wrote:
>
> > I have attempted to use ACOM and Western Digital
> > firewire drives on my new cluster. They need to be
> > able to accept multiple logins. The Old 80 gig western
> > digital works fine. The new 120 gig doesn't. The
> > oxford911 chipset is used in the wd drive.
> >
> > The oxford911 I thought was supposed to work with a
> > shared connection. I can connect with one system, but
> > the other reports that the drive is telling it that it
> > has 37 million connections (or whatever the max value
> > is for big integer) and refuses a second connection.
> > Has the microcode been altered since the 80 gig drive?
> > Is there any way to patch this so it will accept
> > multiple connections?

I noticed later in the evening that on the Oxford Semi site there is a 
Java uploader for changing firmware, and there is also now an Oxford 
911plus, so it's possible that things have changed quite a bit...

- Mark