How to perform Firmware Update on a Samsung HM060HI?

[mattemax80]

Please someone can say me if exists a firmware tool to update the firmware on a HDD Samsung HM060HI?
My firmware's version now is YD100-15. Thanks.

[pcimage]

Why?

[guru]

Standard ATA command will do that

[BlackST]

Abra Ka Dabra....

P.S. if the drive is working you don't need a FW update - assuming it is available.

[fzabkar]

You can use the "fwdownload" command option for hdparm under Linux.
http://www.unix.com/man-page/Linux/8/hdparm/

Tim Small documents two successful Seagate firmware updates:
https://ata.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Talk:Known_issues

However, he cautions that "you have to be pretty sure that Linux isn't going to access the drive, or it will issue a bus reset during the firmware update process. e.g. if you need to carry out the update on a boot drive, then you could prepare the files, then reboot into single user mode, with all filesystems remounted read-only".

The man page has the following warning:

"This command (--fwdownload) is EXTREMELY DANGEROUS and HAS NEVER BEEN PROVEN TO WORK and will probably destroy both the drive and all data on it. DO NOT USE THIS COMMAND."

[BlackST]

Did you try FOR REAL on HMxxx ?

[BGman]

Samsung drives need a special Flasher program to flash their ROM.
VTool and WCube can be used also. Mayby HUtil (SRV) .

[BlackST]

The problem is not the ROM it's the rest....

P.S. HM060HI

[guru]

That's not true.

You could use DEBUG in DOS if you had the time ) . It's an ATA command (PART OF THE SPEC)


Finding the correct firmware is the hard part!

Samsung drives need a special Flasher program to flash their ROM.
VTool and WCube can be used also. Mayby HUtil (SRV) .

[akm7]

Samsung firmware update will rewrite ony ROM code and overlay code.
If you have some problem with SA, you should seek another method.

[BGman]

YF19BM54.BIN is the latest. Try to find it.

[fzabkar]

Programs and utilities for data recovery and repair hard drives:
http://www.griol.com/downloads.html