HDD Firmware update question.

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mono666 · #1 Post by **mono666** » Sat Oct 21, 2006 12:12 am

Has anyone had any success on updating the hard disk firmware without a ultrabay? maybe with a usb floppy or usb flash drives?

Edit: I found the topic. but I can't download the floppy image file made by messar. can someone who still have the file re-share it please

mono666 · #2 Post by **mono666** » Sat Oct 21, 2006 5:14 pm

Okay, now i got the firmware update to work... but it says my hdd does not reqire an update. how do i force to update the hdd?
the drive model is:

HTC424020F7AT00 - 20gb
DK14FA-20

please help!

mono666 · #3 Post by **mono666** » Sat Oct 21, 2006 6:54 pm

OKay.. here is what I have done so far:

FW.PRO

Hitachi : DK1xFA
;
; DK14FA-20
"HITACHI_DK14FA-20","00MBA0A4","00MBA0B7","MBB72904.bin","hfuh07.exe","MBB72904.cfg",""
"HITACHI_DK14FA-20","00MBA0A4","00MBA0B7","MBB72904.bin","hfuh07.exe","MBB72904.cfg",""
"HITACHI_DK14FA-20","00MBA0A4","00MBA0B7","MBB72904.bin","hfuh07.exe","MBB72904.cfg",""

MBB72904.CFG

# DK14FA-20 Rev.A0B7 ?
#
HITACHI_DK14FA-20;MBB00?,MBB01?,MBB02?,MBB03?,MBB04?;A0B7;MBB72904
HITACHI_DK14FA-20;MBB10?,MBB11?,MBB12?,MBB13?,MBB14?;A0B7;MBB72904
HITACHI_DK14FA-20;MBB20?,MBB21?,MBB22?,MBB23?,MBB24?;A0B7;MBB72904
HITACHI_DK14FA-20;MBB30?,MBB31?,MBB32?,MBB33?,MBB34?;A0B7;MBB72904
HITACHI_DK14FA-20;MBB40?,MBB41?,MBB42?,MBB43?,MBB44?;A0B7;MBB72904
# HITACHI_DK14FA-20;MBB50?,MBB51?,MBB52?,MBB53?,MBB54?;A0B7;MBB72904
HITACHI_DK14FA-20;MBB60?,MBB61?,MBB62?,MBB63?,MBB64?;A0B7;MBB72904
HITACHI_DK14FA-20;MBB70?,MBB71?,MBB72?,MBB73?,MBB74?;A0B7;MBB72904

I have got to the part the FW.EXE will reconize this drive needs to be updated but the after it execute the commands I would recieve the error message: "DK14FA-20 is not supported by this tool" is there anyway i can force the update with out that BS?

mono666 · #4 Post by **mono666** » Mon Oct 23, 2006 10:18 pm

so no one has this problem before?

upjeeper · #5 Post by **upjeeper** » Sat Aug 11, 2007 10:16 am

did you ever get this solved?

i've got a dk23fb-60, per the FW.PRO file i've got the following

; DK23FB-60 60GB
"HITACHI_DK23FB-60B","00M0A0B0","00M0A0B1","M0B11804.bin","hfuh03.exe","M0B11804.cfg",""

but i'm not sure how to force the command like shown at
http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?t=20858

what do you do if you don't have a tbl file?

albertr · #6 Post by **albertr** » Thu Oct 04, 2007 8:44 am

I'm in the same boat as mono... Changed my *.cfg file, but still it refuses to flash.

Jeeper, there's no .tbl file for your flasher, you will need to change .cfg file first to match your hard drive, and then run fw update utility, i.e.:

hfuh03.exe M0B11804.bin M0B11804.cfg /pm

assuming your hard drive is master on primary channel. Otherwise, use /ps, /sm or /ss flags.

-albertr

cofreth · #7 Post by **cofreth** » Thu Oct 04, 2007 11:53 pm

Hello,

What is this HDD Firmware, anyone can explain please?

Thank you

albertr · #8 Post by **albertr** » Thu Nov 01, 2007 10:48 am

I played with configuration file alittle, and now it went one step futher.
It doesn't refuse the hard drive anymore, but now fails with error:

Preparing the firmware for port 0 master DK13FA-40 .
File access error occured on floppy disk.
( file name = MCB72904.BIN, errcode = 0x00000014 )
port 0 master DK13FA-40 SER#3LJ053 downloading error.

I can read firmeare BIN file OK, so it must be something else... More to follow.
-albertr

albertr · #9 Post by **albertr** » Thu Nov 01, 2007 10:56 am

Umm, DOS error code 0x14 is "Unknown unit". Makes sense to me since it might check for drive A: or B: which I don't have (I'm booting off USB drive - C: )

I'll try to prepare a floppy image tonight.
-albertr

albertr · #10 Post by **albertr** » Thu Nov 01, 2007 9:53 pm

Booting off the floppy didn't help... Must be something else.
-albertr

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