Does expensive SCSI/SAS adapters have firmware?

Yousuf Khan <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> On 14/04/2012 4:04 PM, Arno wrote:
>> bbbl67<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>>> On Apr 12, 7:42?am, Man-wai Chang<toylet.toy...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Just curious...
>>
>>> As I recall, going back to my Sun Microsystems days, there were
>>> firmware upgrades available for enterprise SCSI disks. It wasn't
>>> something that a system administrator could apply themselves, they
>>> needed to send Sun technicians in to do it.
>>
>>> Yousuf Khan
>>
>> Sounds more like "they needed to charge SUN rates" to me.

> Probably, but we already had a service contract with them, so it was
> fine by me.

> Yousuf Khan

So more "we need to charge (internally) the folks that sell service
contracts so we can keep our number of technicians high". ;-)

Arno

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