fzabkar wrote:
Perhaps you are approaching the problem from the wrong perspective. Instead of trying to change the firmware on your Seagate drive to make your controller happy, why not find out why the LSI card believes your drive to be unsupported, and then trick it into believing that 7FA3 firmware is OK.
BTW, mixing OEM firmware with retail firmware often results in an inoperable drive. This is because the firmware consists of numerous modules. A firmware update generally targets only a small number of these modules. This means that you must be certain that the new modules are compatible with the existing ones. I have seen several disasters, even in the case of mismatched retail versions (eg applying SDnn firmware to a CCnn drive).
Thank you fzabkar
I never thought of trying it that way. Its just when I was reading, others had firmware from other vendors that they also showed as unsupported on their RAID card. I will see what I can find out.
Regarding flashing the firmware, if it can be done, I don't mind trying it with a a drive so see the results.
Cheers,
James