Hi,
For personal experimentation and use, I've bought used IBM lto-3 drive, which was originally used in STK L40 library (or at the very least, in some StorageTek product, judging from the tray; I was told though it was taken from L40). The drive works perfectly fine, though the firmware is pretty ancient - judging from the number and some other vendors that used IBM drives internally, it's the very first one - 5BG2.
If the drive came from any other vendor's device - IBM itself, HP, Dell, Tandberg - there would be no problems with getting latest matching firmware. But Oracle is Oracle - and they want money for elemntary things like bioses/fw for obsolete devices.
My questions are:
Is there any place with perhaps archived versions, where I could download such firmware (or to be precise - as it's only about the tape drive in my case - ~1.5mb file for lto-3/scsi/lvd oemed by IBM, used in L40).
Or if not - is there someone with L40 device, having more recent firmware version at hand (or perhaps still with access to Oracle "my support" nonsense) and kind enough to help ?
For personal experimentation and use, I've bought used IBM lto-3 drive, which was originally used in STK L40 library (or at the very least, in some StorageTek product, judging from the tray; I was told though it was taken from L40). The drive works perfectly fine, though the firmware is pretty ancient - judging from the number and some other vendors that used IBM drives internally, it's the very first one - 5BG2.
If the drive came from any other vendor's device - IBM itself, HP, Dell, Tandberg - there would be no problems with getting latest matching firmware. But Oracle is Oracle - and they want money for elemntary things like bioses/fw for obsolete devices.
My questions are:
Is there any place with perhaps archived versions, where I could download such firmware (or to be precise - as it's only about the tape drive in my case - ~1.5mb file for lto-3/scsi/lvd oemed by IBM, used in L40).
Or if not - is there someone with L40 device, having more recent firmware version at hand (or perhaps still with access to Oracle "my support" nonsense) and kind enough to help ?