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chinopk

Post subject: Maxtor Family Identification

Posted: May 5th, 2010, 10:22

Joined: March 20th, 2010, 4:34
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Location: Turkey

Can anyone please advise how the determine the family for firmware upgrade of Maxtor Drives,

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harddrivespecialist

Post subject: Re: Maxtor Family Identification

Posted: May 5th, 2010, 10:38

Joined: January 15th, 2008, 11:06
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Location: Providence, RI. Boston, MA USA

Provide a full model number for your Maxtor drive.
Old Maxtor drives don't have any FW updates.

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dmarques

Post subject: Re: Maxtor Family Identification

Posted: May 5th, 2010, 10:54

Joined: November 6th, 2006, 6:58
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Anyway, why do you need FW upgrade?

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guru

Post subject: Re: Maxtor Family Identification

Posted: May 5th, 2010, 14:57

Joined: May 5th, 2004, 20:06
Posts: 2782
Location: England

Should have the info

http://seagate.custkb.com/seagate/crm/s ... NewLang=en

Maxtor Galaxy 4.3 GB Hard Drive, v. 1.0, A01 ;o)
http://support.us.dell.com/support/down ... leid=19604

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chinopk

Post subject: Re: Maxtor Family Identification

Posted: May 6th, 2010, 2:46

Joined: March 20th, 2010, 4:34
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chinopk wrote:

Can anyone please advise how the determine the family for firmware upgrade of Maxtor Drives,

thanks

Actually my question is how to determine the family of maxtor drive e.g Calipso, Grizzly, ROMULUS, I hope it will be clear now.

thanks

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BlackST

Post subject: Re: Maxtor Family Identification

Posted: May 6th, 2010, 5:42

Joined: July 18th, 2006, 3:05
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Location: ITALY

EYES. Look at the WHITE writing on GREEN background , you just need to flip a drive upside down and using EYES.... you'll identify it.

In a few words : take a look at the PCB and silkscreen

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unknown

Post subject: Re: Maxtor Family Identification

Posted: May 6th, 2010, 6:00

Joined: October 21st, 2007, 8:48
Posts: 1712

You will find something like that ( CALYPSO III - POKER - SABRE - BLUE FISH and so on )

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Actually my question is how to determine the family of maxtor drive e.g Calipso, Grizzly, ROMULUS, I hope it will be clear now.

Sure, It's your eyes.

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