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Does anybody have a ROM for this ver, please?

Regards

Sure its 1AJxxx or 1AGxxx?

double chk

chk this

Thanks, have plenty of that version.
See pic, please.

Regards

If you just need the ROM, it turned up as the second hit in a Google search.

Samsung F3 250GB 7200 3.5" SATA2 HDD, F3 500GB 7200 3.5" SATA2 HDD, F3 750GB 7200 3.5" SATA2 HDD, F3 1TB 7200 3.5" SATA2 HDD, v.1AJ10002, A00:
http://downloads.dell.com/SATA/F3_Patch.zip
http://www.dell.com/support/drivers/us/ ... id=R306059

Firmware for Samsung F3 250/500/750/1TB SATA2 HDD Release Date: 6/16/2011
Importance: Urgent
Version: 1AJ10002,A00

Extract the EXE file and carve the HD103SJ ROM code out of it.

If you need help in doing this, then see this thread:
http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/26978 ... j-firmware

I should add that the ROM code in the firmware update only covers the first half of the ROM. The second half is filled with 0xFF bytes except for a small FIPS section at offset 0x70000 (IIRC). The FIPS data sometimes become corrupted, resulting in a no-spin symptom. You can sometimes (always?) patch FIPS data from a donor ROM, but from what I have read at Ace Labs' forum, you should be able to substitute a dummy FIPS consisting of 16 header bytes and two checksum bytes at the end. The 16-bit little endian checksum is computed such that the overall sum of the FIPS block is 0x0000. I can do this for you if you like.

BTW, the firmware update also includes an update for the MOVLY001 module.

Here is my Analysis of Samsung's SpinPoint F3 firmware update:
http://malthus.zapto.org/viewtopic.php? ... 1986#p1986

Here is the structure of the firmware image file:
http://malthus.zapto.org/viewtopic.php? ... 1989#p1989

labtech wrote:Thanks, have plenty of that version.
See pic, please.

Regards

yes, i can see that, when i 1st. looked i thought its SI not SJ
my mistake :>

einstein9 wrote:

labtech wrote:Thanks, have plenty of that version.
See pic, please.

Regards

yes, i can see that, when i 1st. looked i thought its SI not SJ
my mistake :>

NP.

Thanks Frank. I was looking for something quicker. Will see.

Here you are

labtech wrote:

einstein9 wrote:

labtech wrote:Thanks, have plenty of that version.
See pic, please.

Regards

yes, i can see that, when i 1st. looked i thought its SI not SJ
my mistake :>

NP.

Thanks Frank. I was looking for something quicker. Will see.

It only took me 10 minutes. The FIPS section is a dummy, though. I've also included the MOVLY001 module.

BTW, you can use the same technique for other drives. Here is a Seagate example:

Tip: Locating ROM and SA resources in firmware updates:
http://malthus.zapto.org/viewtopic.php? ... 705&p=2196

Here's ROM and full resources...

http://files.hddguru.com/index.php?acti ... AMSUNG/F3&

Thank you very much for the ROMs. Worked. Imaging...