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    Flashing Drive Firmware?

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by John C. Price, Jan 31, 2009.

  1. John C. Price

    John C. Price Newbie

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    I will purchase a Samsung SN-S082H. I am sure this drive will be received with firmware revision SB01 which is cable select low primary master. My system will require a primary slave. I have downloaded firmware revision SH01 which is cable select high primary slave. I am assuming once flashed my system will recognize this drive. Both of these flash programs are windows based exe files. If my system refuses to recognize this drive as it will be a primary master how will I go about reflashing the firmware on this drive?

    Thanks,
    John
     
    John C. Price, Jan 31, 2009
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  2. Big Mike

    Big Mike Notebook Deity

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    Assuming you have access to a desktop with IDE you can get an IDE to IDE slim cd adapter and flash it on the PC. I'm not sure you can flash the drive at all if its set to master, unless maybe you pull the hard drive and can boot from a USB or something along those lines?
     
    Big Mike, Jan 31, 2009
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