Luckily there is no important data on the disk. So it's not that bad if i lost the data.
Seagate will not give me the SD15 firmware (although i have still disks with sd15 firmware on it, dont know how to substract it from the disk)
Hopefully seagate will releases the firmware soon, because our client is anxious waiting for his pc's.:(
Hi maxtorman,
Thanks for explaining the whole story.
I work for an IT company in the technical departement. For over 10 years now. I have seen Harddrives come and go.
The hitachi GXP deskstar series, the WD100 failures etc. Every large storage manufacturer has his bad moments or failures so now and then. Shit happens.
Well i just had a question.
I was just busy with 5 identical pc's in which there was 5x 500GB 7200.11 drives with the affacted SD15 firmware. I downloaded the iso burned it but ofcoursed it failed, I did some investigation and i found in the bootsector of the cdrom all files that seagate uses to flash the drives. (extracted them with bbie and winimage to an usb stick)
Ofcourse there is that batch file which checks the partnummer and then flashes the drive. Except the utility that is being used to flash the drive crashes.
It's the FDL462A.exe. I first thought it was due to bad scripting. So i put everything on a bootable pendrive and flashed the drives manually (ofcourse with the correct parameters/options)
But the FDL462A programm still crashed. Then i tried the older flash util FDL457 and VOILA it flashed the 5 500GB drives to the new firmware SD1A.. But as you guessed, this firmware was not suitable for the drive and now the bios does NOT reconized the drives anymore. The seagate tool fortunatley still does. So is there still a chance that i can flash them with the upcoming new firmware and will they be working correctly ? or do i have to RMA'them?
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Luckily there is no important data on the disk. So it's not that bad if i lost the data. Seagate will not give me the SD15 firmware (although i have still disks with sd15 firmware on it, dont know how to substract it from the disk) Hopefully seagate will releases the firmware soon, because our client is anxious waiting for his pc's. :(
Hi maxtorman, Thanks for explaining the whole story. I work for an IT company in the technical departement. For over 10 years now. I have seen Harddrives come and go. The hitachi GXP deskstar series, the WD100 failures etc. Every large storage manufacturer has his bad moments or failures so now and then. Shit happens. Well i just had a question. I was just busy with 5 identical pc's in which there was 5x 500GB 7200.11 drives with the affacted SD15 firmware. I downloaded the iso burned it but ofcoursed it failed, I did some investigation and i found in the bootsector of the cdrom all files that seagate uses to flash the drives. (extracted them with bbie and winimage to an usb stick) Ofcourse there is that batch file which checks the partnummer and then flashes the drive. Except the utility that is being used to flash the drive crashes. It's the FDL462A.exe. I first thought it was due to bad scripting. So i put everything on a bootable pendrive and flashed the drives manually (ofcourse with the correct parameters/options) But the FDL462A programm still crashed. Then i tried the older flash util FDL457 and VOILA it flashed the 5 500GB drives to the new firmware SD1A.. But as you guessed, this firmware was not suitable for the drive and now the bios does NOT reconized the drives anymore. The seagate tool fortunatley still does. So is there still a chance that i can flash them with the upcoming new firmware and will they be working correctly ? or do i have to RMA'them?