On Sat, Mar 12, 2005 at 12:00:26PM -0500, Michael wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> > Am I the only one with a Sun/OF 2940UW around? if not... anybody know
> > how I might convince the eeprom (or fdump) utilities that come with
> > Adaptec's little firmware package (to backup the ROM) to backup 128K?
> > I've only been able to pull 64K off mine. I notice that the "eeprom"
> > utility on the adaptec disk takes a size argument... but the actual
> > update script uses "flash4.exe" not "eeprom.exe" so I'm not sure what
> > to do with that.
> Hmm, write a small program that enables the ROM ( or do it by hand - pcictl
> and tweakpci are your friends ), mmap(/dev/mem, whatever_physical_address_it_is_at)
> and dump it into a file. The PCI stuff is at 0x1ff00000000, so it should be
> fairly easy to do. Of course this works only if the ROM is really one piece of 128KB.
> I did something similar on macppc, I could send you the code if you want.

I would appreciate that. I'm pretty sure I understand what you're suggesting
- but I've never tried to do anything similar before, so an example would be
most welcome.

- Sean

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