Re: Is my new 500 GB Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 HDD affected?

On Sat, 24 Jan 2009 00:56:51 -0800, DevilsPGD
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In message <v4tkn41o7773iui2i8pkhjo79hei290jeo@xxxxxxx> Franc Zabkar
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On Sat, 24 Jan 2009 01:44:10 +0000 (UTC), David Lesher
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So iffen you have one of the afflicted drives; how do you go about
patching it? Is there some Windows utility?

If so, what do non-Windows folks do?

Seagate supplies an ISO file which you burn to a CD-R. This is a
bootable FreeDOS image containing the flash loader and the firmware
file, among other things.

Alternatively, I have used ISObuster to extract the BootImage.img file
from the ISO. This is a 1,474,560 byte floppy drive image. I then used
FreeDOS's Diskcopy command to copy this bootable image to a floppy
diskette. I suppose Linux users would use the dd command to achieve
the same end.

I'd imagine Linux users would not, Linux users would do the same thing
as Windows users do, burn the ISO, boot from it and patch the drive as
needed.

Sorry, something got lost in the translation. I offered a floppy
solution as an alternative to the CD-ROM solution, in which case dd
would have been the Linux alternative to diskcopy. By creating the
floppy, you can see the actual files. You also don't need to waste a
CD-R disc.

BTW, ISTR some peculiar posts in Seagate's forums where people have
been unable to boot from their CD-ROM ISO until they enabled the FDD
in the BIOS.

No particular OS required, beyond the software needed to burn the ISO,
Seagate provides the OS.

Yes, I understand.

- Franc Zabkar
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