Flashing Firmware on HDD in RAID 10 Array
would you trust instructions like this?
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QI 37.
Patch tool for Identify fail during NCQ write command.(Model: F4EG)
A 37.
If identify commmand is issued from host during NCQ write command in the condition of PC ,
write condition is unstable.
So It can make the loss of written data.
(Model : F4EG HD204UI, HD204UI/Z4, HD204UI/UZ4, HD155UI, HD155UI/Z4, HD155UI/UZ4)
To improve this problem, Please use the attached DOS model patch tool.
1. Please unzip attached file to Bootable media (USB,CD, Floppy...etc).
2. Please connect Target HDD to Primary / Mast.
3. Booting the system to DOS mode by bootable media.(which with this F/W flash program).
4. Please run " F4EG ".
5. When FW Flash successfully message display , please Power Off system, to make F/W flash complete.
Note: Please do not warm boot(Ctrl+Alt+Delet , or push Reset button..etc) your PC during the
F/W patch. Warm boot can make F/W Patch fail and make unexpected problem on HDD.
http://www.samsung.com/global/busine...bbs_msg_id=386
what a joke.
Re: Flashing Firmware on HDD in RAID 10 Array
well yeh, but i never did due to the amount of faffing about !
bit daft really consideirng the likes of OCZ's toolbox for a windows based flash.
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That's sort of how I end up writing my reports, at the end of the working week.
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Looks sensible enough to me, just a regular flash but making sure you turn off rather than ctrl-alt-del. I'm fine with Samsung's Korean engineers not having perfect English as long as they can be good engineers & produce working fixes like (hopefully) this. Maybe the Engrish in the instructions will encourage people read the entire thing before attempting the flashing :)
I dislike Windows flashing tools due to a bad experience a few years ago.
Re: Flashing Firmware on HDD in RAID 10 Array
On a side note Jay, there is no issues with flashing while being a member of RAID.
Done all of my 15 drivers on three different hardware RAID controllers and all its good =]
Re: Flashing Firmware on HDD in RAID 10 Array
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Originally Posted by
spoon_
On a side note Jay, there is no issues with flashing while being a member of RAID.
Done all of my 15 drivers on three different hardware RAID controllers and all its good =]
Not always true. Investigate it carefully.
Typically onboard SATA RAID controllers - more specifically Intel chipset ones - are ok with HDD flashing.
However our two RAID10 machines (#2 & 3 in my siggie using 3Ware and SI3114 respectively) required us to remove a drive - flash it separately - then rebuild the array. I did this for 10x Maxtor Maxline 250GB drives and it took days!
Imagine my joy when I discovered the 4x Western Digi 250GB RE2's I acquired later had the same firmware bug! Fortunately they were late enough to have been factory flashed :)
