Firewire drives

[Mark Knecht]

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