Re: [gentoo-user] Re: HP Library

["Stefan G. Weichinger" <lists@xunil.at>]

James schrieb:
> Stefan G. Weichinger <lists <at> xunil.at> writes:
> 
>  
>> Has anyone ever managed to upgrade a HP Surestore Library C7201NB with
>> Gentoo on the host?
> 
> Nope.

Noone ever?

;)

>> The hp_ltt-tool is only available in binary form and for old OSs, but
>> nothing recent and for sure not for Gentoo.
> 
> don't forget about possible running the old software on a gentoo box with
> wine/vmware or such emulators....(see /usr/portage/app-emulation/*)

So I would need something like Suse 7.3 in a VM, whooo ...
Extra tasty when it comes to firmware upgrades.

> 1. What type of interface are we talking about (rs232 serial, ethernet parallel)?

Unsure what interface you mean ...

It's a tape library connected to the host via SCSI, with an additional
Remote Management Card from HP providing webaccess, which doesn't fully
work for me as I mentioned.

Additional info here: I tried to access that WebGUI with several
browsers in linux and Windows XP, no success, always that Javaclass
"JuiceTop" missing.

> 2. Sniff the connection to see what's on the receiving end
> ethernet (ethereal)

Errm, yes. I have an actual error-message in the browser ...

> 3. Analyze the device and see what it's asking for
> 
> 4. Find what it is looking for or just 'dope it' (er trial and error).
> 
> 
> Lots of work, but a lot of fun. The older the device the less
> protection and obscurity the firmware folks put into the 
> product.
> 
> 5. If you cannot find detailed information specific to this machine,
> just look for info on a similarly aged competitor (you'd be surprise
> how many machines of a similar venue have almost identical firmware).
> 
> 6. If none of these work, open up the case and find a serial port, JTAG
> or such where you just might get lucky and get raw access to the embedded
> host processor, using step 2 or other similar techniques).

Thanks a lot for your suggestions, but I think that's a bit to heavy for
me in the moment ....

Stefan

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