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James schrieb: |
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> Stefan G. Weichinger <lists <at> xunil.at> writes: |
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>> Has anyone ever managed to upgrade a HP Surestore Library C7201NB with |
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>> Gentoo on the host? |
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> Nope. |
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Noone ever? |
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;) |
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>> The hp_ltt-tool is only available in binary form and for old OSs, but |
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>> nothing recent and for sure not for Gentoo. |
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> don't forget about possible running the old software on a gentoo box with |
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> wine/vmware or such emulators....(see /usr/portage/app-emulation/*) |
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So I would need something like Suse 7.3 in a VM, whooo ... |
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Extra tasty when it comes to firmware upgrades. |
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> 1. What type of interface are we talking about (rs232 serial, ethernet parallel)? |
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Unsure what interface you mean ... |
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It's a tape library connected to the host via SCSI, with an additional |
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Remote Management Card from HP providing webaccess, which doesn't fully |
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work for me as I mentioned. |
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Additional info here: I tried to access that WebGUI with several |
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browsers in linux and Windows XP, no success, always that Javaclass |
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"JuiceTop" missing. |
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> 2. Sniff the connection to see what's on the receiving end |
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> ethernet (ethereal) |
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Errm, yes. I have an actual error-message in the browser ... |
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> 3. Analyze the device and see what it's asking for |
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> 4. Find what it is looking for or just 'dope it' (er trial and error). |
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> Lots of work, but a lot of fun. The older the device the less |
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> protection and obscurity the firmware folks put into the |
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> product. |
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> 5. If you cannot find detailed information specific to this machine, |
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> just look for info on a similarly aged competitor (you'd be surprise |
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> how many machines of a similar venue have almost identical firmware). |
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> 6. If none of these work, open up the case and find a serial port, JTAG |
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> or such where you just might get lucky and get raw access to the embedded |
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> host processor, using step 2 or other similar techniques). |
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Thanks a lot for your suggestions, but I think that's a bit to heavy for |
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me in the moment .... |
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Stefan |
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