- #SEAGATE MAC FORMAT PATCH SERIAL#
- #SEAGATE MAC FORMAT PATCH DRIVERS#
- #SEAGATE MAC FORMAT PATCH UPGRADE#
If they had none of that model at all, you’d get back a drive of the next higher capacity with at least the same spindle RPM. If they had no refurbished ones of that model in stock, they’d ship you a new drive.
If they couldn’t repair the drive you sent in, they’d send a refurbished identical model. In later years, when a hard drive had to go back under warranty, WD had a minimum turnaround time. Other companies (like Chaintech) would destroy/delete information on discontinued products and some went so far as to deny ever making some items, even with their current company name and address printed directly on the item.
#SEAGATE MAC FORMAT PATCH DRIVERS#
Remember the “Orchid” video cards? I got drivers and docs for them from WD after the company WD sold Orchid to had discontinued the line. Even more amazing was WD had software and documents for product lines they’d sold off to other companies. In a few minutes it’d FAX you the documents. The next step was to dial their toll free FAX-back service where (IIRC) up to four documents at a time could be requested. Western Digital in the pre It also had a documentation lookup feature where you could find the numbers. The millennium drives were the only ones I could not find any firmware for.įor quite a while I’d look for some file, couldn’t find it on any of my drives… “Oh. I searched for a long time for a firmware file to use with the procedures I’d found to fix Maxtor drives. I had a 36 gig Maxtor drive in the millennium family that managed to lose the part of its firmware stored on the platters. Posted in Repair Hacks Tagged 7200.11, bug, busy state, firmware, hard drive, seagate Post navigation
grabbed an Arduino instead, using it as a USB-ttl bridge. In the tutorial uses a serial-TTL converter.
#SEAGATE MAC FORMAT PATCH SERIAL#
From there he issues serial commands to put it into Access Level 2, then removes the cardboard for the rest of the fix. This is necessary to boot the drive without it hanging due to the bug.
The image in the lower right shows the drive with a piece of paper between the PCB and the connectors which control the head. put together the tutorial which illustrates the steps needed to unbrick the 7200.11 hard drive with the busy state bug. Some searching led him to a hardware fix for the problem.
#SEAGATE MAC FORMAT PATCH UPGRADE#
There’s a firmware upgrade available, but you have to apply it before the problem shows its face, otherwise you’re out of luck. It stopped working completely, and he later found out the firmware has a bug that makes the drive think it’s permanently in a busy state. But that turned out to be the problem with Seagate HDD which he was using in a RAID array. Hard drive firmware is about the last place you want to find a bug.
0 kommentar(er)
