Seagate ST340016A Firmware Update

[bobbyks2000]

Hello All,

First of all, a Merry Christmas to you all guys !!!


Well, i am a noob here and need expert advice of you guys. I have a Seagate ST340016A HDD which runs fine most of the time.However, sometimes it misbehaves and hangs on power up and doesnt work. if i repeatedly power on and power off the HDD, it sometimes works fine again.

I googled for this symptoms and found that it could be a firmware malfunction issue which can be rectified if the firmware is either repaired or updated.

Now, i got the firmware from the forum as given in the below link

http://files.hddguru.com/download/PC-30 ... 0ATA%20IV/

When i download that, i can see many files in it and no exe files.

How can i update the HDD? Any ideas? What tools are required?


Thanks
Bob

[zebong]

you need very expensive tools.

i think the disk do not worth that money and time.

[Samo]

There were some firmware updates for those drive (from HP, Compaq, IBM....) which do not require specialized utilities for upgrading. Anyway I do not think upgrade will make things better. Better try to purchase new ATA drive while still on sale.
Merry Christmas