chapin4life Posted January 23, 2009 Share Posted January 23, 2009 (edited) thanks for the reply but I live outside north america and it usually takes about 2 weeks to recieve something from US unless I pay fedex 2-3 days which costs about $120 US Edited January 23, 2009 by chapin4life Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spankerer Posted January 23, 2009 Share Posted January 23, 2009 Ok I successfully flash my ST3500320AS to the SD1A firmware. Hopefully it will work fine until the end of it's natural life cycle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chapin4life Posted January 23, 2009 Share Posted January 23, 2009 Was it a drive with the busy or LB0 issue?Ok I successfully flash my ST3500320AS to the SD1A firmware. Hopefully it will work fine until the end of it's natural life cycle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TechnoFreek Posted January 23, 2009 Share Posted January 23, 2009 (edited) Was it a drive with the busy or LB0 issue?Ok I successfully flash my ST3500320AS to the SD1A firmware. Hopefully it will work fine until the end of it's natural life cycle.if its any help, one of my drives has the busy fault. it is not detected by the bios and when i ran the firmware upgrade it was still unable to detect the drive and hence could not apply the firmware upgrade.ive decided to try fix this fault myself using gradius2's method. parts are ordered, just awaiting their arrival!! Edited January 23, 2009 by TechnoFreek Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikesw Posted January 23, 2009 Share Posted January 23, 2009 (edited) Try this free hard disk tester program for windows.http://www.hddscan.com For those in Russia for disk recoveryhttp://rlab.ruOther software thats supposed to allow one to reflash a drive that isn't recognized is PC-3000again made by http://www.acelabs.ru in russia or http://www.acelaboratory.com or http://www.deepspar.comand http://www.pc3000.comSee this tool they make...for firmware fixinghttp://www.deepspar.com/products-pc-3000-drive.html Edited January 24, 2009 by mikesw Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cdturri Posted January 23, 2009 Share Posted January 23, 2009 Try this free hard disk tester program for windows.http://www.hddscan.com For those in Russia for disk recoveryhttp://rlab.ruDo you know these guys? It's not unknown for hackers to post "free" Apps in order to hack your PC. The forums look pretty empty to me... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gradius2 Posted January 23, 2009 Share Posted January 23, 2009 (edited) Now please tell me, how segate finds a solution in 6 days, when they weren't able to fix the problem in the year before.Seagate is cutting 2950 jobs and executives salaries down to 25% too.They could just offer a "special bonus" to those who really knows (a firmware is always writing in assembly) to fix the HDD stuff. This is why they could fixed once for all so fast.The only difference is .LOD files are cryptographed, since they have HDDs on consoles like Xbox 360, if they just didn't do that, it would be very easy to defect 360's HDDs protections to accept ANY HDD, and ANY size. Plus, it could run games from HDD without any problem.However they still needs to release more firmwares, specially for those:ST31500341ASST31000333ASST3640323ASST3640623ASST3320613ASST3320813ASST3160813AShttp://seagate.custkb.com/seagate/crm/self...sp?DocId=207957They says CC or LC firmwares aren't affected, but this is untrue, I already saw more than 10 complains with CC's firmwares, and 1 with LC. Edited January 23, 2009 by Gradius2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrofLuigi Posted January 23, 2009 Share Posted January 23, 2009 Try this free hard disk tester program for windows.http://www.hddscan.com For those in Russia for disk recoveryhttp://rlab.ruDo you know these guys? It's not unknown for hackers to post "free" Apps in order to hack your PC. The forums look pretty empty to me...I use HDDScan (for other purpose, on other drive) for several months and seen no problems.GL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
icefloe01 Posted January 23, 2009 Share Posted January 23, 2009 The new firmware is out!!http://seagate.custkb.com/seagate/crm/self...sp?DocId=207951The new firmware has been pulled AGAIN! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gradius2 Posted January 23, 2009 Share Posted January 23, 2009 The new firmware is out!!http://seagate.custkb.com/seagate/crm/self...sp?DocId=207951The new firmware has been pulled AGAIN!Actually no, at least MooseDT-SD1A-3D4D-16-32MB.ISO are the very same (I compared).Gradius Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
icefloe01 Posted January 23, 2009 Share Posted January 23, 2009 The new firmware is out!!http://seagate.custkb.com/seagate/crm/self...sp?DocId=207951The new firmware has been pulled AGAIN!Actually no, at least MooseDT-SD1A-3D4D-16-32MB.ISO are the very same (I compared).Gradius Well that's just strange as hell. I went three different paths to arrive at the link above and the page from the 19th was up that said it was in validation. I saw it right before I posted. Now the page is back to normal with the new firmware again. Weird... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cdturri Posted January 23, 2009 Share Posted January 23, 2009 New firmware just released for the following drives (1.5 TB included!):ST31500341ASST31000333ASST3640323ASST3640623ASST3320613ASST3320813ASST3160813AShttp://seagate.custkb.com/seagate/crm/self...sp?DocId=207957 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gradius2 Posted January 23, 2009 Share Posted January 23, 2009 New firmware just released for the following drives (1.5 TB included!):ST31500341ASST31000333ASST3640323ASST3640623ASST3320613ASST3320813ASST3160813AShttp://seagate.custkb.com/seagate/crm/self...sp?DocId=207957Sigh!, they didn't put a CC1H or better for those with CC1F and lower.Goodbye Seagate, forever! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
f00kie Posted January 23, 2009 Share Posted January 23, 2009 So do we know that CC1H and newer (CC1J) are good? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gradius2 Posted January 23, 2009 Share Posted January 23, 2009 So do we know that CC1H and newer (CC1J) are good?CC1J seems fine, not sure about CC1H. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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