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mattemax80
 Post subject: How to perform Firmware Update on a Samsung HM060HI?
PostPosted: November 4th, 2010, 11:52 
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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.
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pcimage
 Post subject: Re: How to perform Firmware Update on a Samsung HM060HI?
PostPosted: November 4th, 2010, 12:28 
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Why?

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guru
 Post subject: Re: How to perform Firmware Update on a Samsung HM060HI?
PostPosted: November 4th, 2010, 14:29 
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Standard ATA command will do that

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BlackST
 Post subject: Re: How to perform Firmware Update on a Samsung HM060HI?
PostPosted: November 4th, 2010, 15:48 
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Abra Ka Dabra....

P.S. if the drive is working you don't need a FW update - assuming it is available.
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fzabkar
 Post subject: Re: How to perform Firmware Update on a Samsung HM060HI?
PostPosted: November 5th, 2010, 2:09 
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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."

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BlackST
 Post subject: Re: How to perform Firmware Update on a Samsung HM060HI?
PostPosted: November 5th, 2010, 12:07 
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Did you try FOR REAL on HMxxx ? :mrgreen:
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BGman
 Post subject: Re: How to perform Firmware Update on a Samsung HM060HI?
PostPosted: November 8th, 2010, 7:29 
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Samsung drives need a special Flasher program to flash their ROM.
VTool and WCube can be used also. Mayby HUtil (SRV) .
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BlackST
 Post subject: Re: How to perform Firmware Update on a Samsung HM060HI?
PostPosted: November 8th, 2010, 8:28 
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The problem is not the ROM it's the rest.... :D

P.S. HM060HI
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guru
 Post subject: Re: How to perform Firmware Update on a Samsung HM060HI?
PostPosted: November 8th, 2010, 9:52 
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That's not true.

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


Finding the correct firmware is the hard part!


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

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akm7
 Post subject: Re: How to perform Firmware Update on a Samsung HM060HI?
PostPosted: November 10th, 2010, 8:01 
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Samsung firmware update will rewrite ony ROM code and overlay code.
If you have some problem with SA, you should seek another method.
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BGman
 Post subject: Re: How to perform Firmware Update on a Samsung HM060HI?
PostPosted: November 19th, 2010, 8:56 
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YF19BM54.BIN is the latest. Try to find it.
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fzabkar
 Post subject: Re: How to perform Firmware Update on a Samsung HM060HI?
PostPosted: November 21st, 2010, 0:59 
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