Ricoh G031 Service Manual page 334

Rev. 01/2003
4.2 FIRMWARE HISTORY
G919 NIB FIRMWARE MODIFICATION HISTORY
DESCRIPTION OF MODIFICATION
First release.
1. The field problem of poor performance
with NetWare has been fixed.
2. CIDR is supported.
3. It is possible to select TCP/IP enable or
disable.
1. IPP printing (v1.0) is supported. (See
Note 1.)
2. AS400 problem in Australia—system
hung up with remote print from AS400—
has been fixed.
(The countermeasure for NIB 450e has
been included in NIB type 2000)
3. VAX/VMS problem—job remains in the
queue after printing from VAX system—
has been fixed.
(The countermeasure for NIB 450e has
been included in NIB type 2000)
4. IP fragmentation problem with token
ring/Ethernet converter has been fixed.
5. It is possible to fix network speed at
100M or 10M bps.
⇒
1. NIB450E disconnects from network.
2. Socket Printing response interval (to
FIN) reduced from 2sec to 100ms.
3. Memory size for the entire PostScript
Banner increased from 120 bytes to 256
bytes. This is for the entire Banner,
which includes the host name, user
name and file name.
4. Ghost server problem: Multicast hash
table used for Ethernet driver. This
allows only specific AppleTalk multicasts
instead of all multicasts, preventing the
NIC from crashing during multicast
storms.
Other changes:
Software modified to support WINS.
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FIRMWARE SERIAL
LEVEL NUMBER
Rst538.upd
First Production
Rst538.upd
April 2000
Production
Rst565a.upd
Jan. 2001
Production
Rst572b.upd
Oct. '01
Production
10-17
FIRMWARE HISTORY
FIRMWARE
VERSION
5.38
5.55
5.65a
5.72b
G031/G032