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Rosewood SSHD ROM patch: Verify ALF FW Signature failed

October 8th, 2018, 10:49

Seagate ST1000LX015

After patching and writing ROM to drive, drive stays BSY, error in terminal: Verify ALF FW Signature failed

PC3K 6.3.15

Patching non-SSHD Rosewoods has been fine for me, this is the first SSHD Rosewood (LX) that I'm working with, and no luck.

Any ideas please?

Re: Rosewood SSHD ROM patch: Verify ALF FW Signature failed

October 8th, 2018, 15:19

We can work with these, but need the drive. Were in uk.

Re: Rosewood SSHD ROM patch: Verify ALF FW Signature failed

October 9th, 2018, 5:14

Hi Mike, thanks for the reply. I'm managing to work with it, albeit slowly, without patching ROM, so I'll see how I go. Cheers.
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Re: Rosewood SSHD ROM patch: Verify ALF FW Signature failed

October 11th, 2018, 8:42

Managed to get a good recovery of his user profile after a bit of fiddling with timeouts etc. Hoping for a solution for the rest of us plebs to patching these ROMs.
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Re: Rosewood SSHD ROM patch: Verify ALF FW Signature failed

October 11th, 2018, 8:46

@ Nick_CT,
Good job.
Some times I forced to do that too. :)

Re: Rosewood SSHD ROM patch: Verify ALF FW Signature failed

October 12th, 2018, 2:48

We have here one ST2000LX001

it is detected as Rosewood_8C

terminal is locked as usual and applying the patch with PC-3000 very last version 6.5.19 returns a succeed message ... but that is a fake

the TS says this is not yet supported

do you kindly have any alternative?

The drive acts as been seen many times with first generation of ST SSHDs , the drive doesn't spin but ID is detected. Looks an MCTM issue that requires some clean/flush

thank you for any
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