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From: "Henning P. Schmiedehausen" <hps@intermeta.de>
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Subject: Re: ide drive dying?
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David Forrest <drf5n@mug.sys.virginia.edu> writes:

>On Sat, 7 Sep 2002 jbradford@dial.pipex.com wrote:

>...
>> Here is the URL:
>>
>> http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-39082
>>
>> 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...

You don't need to. All you need is someone run this tool and send you
the image it creates. I put mine as boot.img on a CD so I can upgrade
all the disks I have in boxes without floppy disk drives. It's a self
booting DOS disk.

	Regards
		Henning

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