From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JJxJr-0003UQ-LI for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 29 Jan 2008 20:44:35 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 542ABE0458; Tue, 29 Jan 2008 20:44:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from zion.lichtfels.com (zion.lichtfels.com [88.198.33.170]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E28E6E0458 for ; Tue, 29 Jan 2008 20:44:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zion.lichtfels.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 22AB1184008 for ; Tue, 29 Jan 2008 21:44:32 +0100 (CET) Received: from zion.lichtfels.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zion [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with LMTP id 27428-01 for ; Tue, 29 Jan 2008 21:44:31 +0100 (CET) Received: from [172.32.99.12] (mail.oops.co.at [213.129.238.225]) by zion.lichtfels.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 36819184005 for ; Tue, 29 Jan 2008 21:44:31 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <479F902E.3030200@xunil.at> Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 21:44:30 +0100 From: "Stefan G. Weichinger" Organization: oops! User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (X11/20071203) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: HP Library References: <479F63DA.5000302@xunil.at> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-maia at lichtfels.com X-Archives-Salt: 3ba414ad-e9cd-4e57-9c46-1d3a5a4fd528 X-Archives-Hash: c3a8cca82f9db3925095465c3c445d43 James schrieb: > Stefan G. Weichinger 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 -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list