Hi all, I've got a ST3500320AS that had the SD15 firmware and became a brick. I fixed that part and the drive was fine, became a brick again, and fixed it again. Then I updated the firmware to SD1A and it's giving me problems... 1stly it fails everything in seatools and it slows the pc down a little bit. I put firmware AD14 on and it worked, just can't get the drive working in windows then because it can't get mounted but on SD1A it can...

Does anyone maybe have working firmware (or other versions I can try - I have AD14 and SD1A) for this drive or any help that I can try in terminal or something please?

Kind regards,
Mielie

ps on SD1A in pc tools disk suite it shows cache as 0mb

hello,

You should update to 1A, and if not works, than RMA it back to seagate....

This is the best what you can do.

Janos

Thanks for the reply,

But the thing is it went to seagate amsterdam and they sent me back the drive in the same condition.
Isn't there a way to program the firmware through the serial port? I have Bin files. I'm not too much bothered about the drive and won't trust it again, I'd just like to experiment and play around a bit

hi there , i have the very same hdd and it died on me yesterday due to electricity problem in the mains , my pc is still ok but the hdd is dead, its , still spinning and sounds ok , but cant get it detected in bios setup or windows , it even hangs the system for long time when i try boot and after that it doesnt get detected , the system continue booting , but as i said its not detected in windows ,from what i read it has some weekness in the design that makes it get bricked easily , the firmware gets corrupted easily , what im trying to say is that i have lots of important data on it , so , i want to know how did you fix yours sousmielie , will you help me please , ill be thankful
i saw in seagate website a new firmware updater for it , but it doesnt work for me since it cant be detected by the system

Go to this link:

http://www.msfn.org/board/solution-seag ... 28807.html

but read it carefully, worked for me to get my data back. now i just want to play around with it

I also have the Seagate firmware problem on a 1tb drive. Followed the instructions at the msfn website to connect to the drive TTL port.

However CTRL+Z does not bring up the F3 prompt only >

if I type in ? I get

Boot Cmds:
DS
AP <addr>
WT <data>
RD
GO
TE
BR <divisor>
BT
?
RET

if I type in GO the drive responds


TetonST Boot Rom 2.0
Copyright Seagate 2006

This looks like some kind of boot or firmware loader. Any ideas?