>>>>> Frank Sorenson writes:
> Martin Knoblauch wrote:
>> Download is simple, just don't use the "IBM Download
>> Manager". Main problem is that one needs a bootable floopy
>> drive and "the other OS" to create a bootable floppy. It would
>> be great if IBM could provide floppy images for use with "dd"
>> for the poor Linux users.
> You may be able to use this process to avoid using either a
> floppy drive or "the other OS":
> 1) Download the appropriate firmware exe from
> http://www-306.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-41008
> (in my case, this looks like fwhd3313.exe)
> 2) Find a freedos disk image (I used one that came with
> biosdisk - http://linux.dell.com/biosdisk/)
> 3) Create a disk image for the firmware executable: cp
> /usr/share/biosdisk/dosdisk.img /tmp/fwdisk1.img mount -oloop
> /tmp/fwtemp.img /mnt/tmp cp fwhd3313.exe /mnt/tmp umount
> /mnt/tmp
> 4) Create a blank disk image for the extracted contents: dd
> if=/dev/zero of=/boot/fwdisk.img bs=1474560 count=1
> 5) Run qemu to extract files and write the disk image: qemu
> -fda /tmp/fwtemp.img -fdb /boot/fwdisk.img A:\>fwhd3313 ...
> exit qemu
> 6) Set up grub to boot the new disk image (requires memdisk
> from syslinux - http://syslinux.zytor.com/): $EDITOR
> /boot/grub/grub.conf title IBM Hard Drive Firmware update
> kernel /memdisk initrd=/fwdisk.img floppy
> 7) Reboot and select the "IBM Hard Drive Firmware update"
> option
> It allowed me to run the firmware update program, however it
> didn't believe my drive needed updating, so I haven't even
> successfully tried the entire process. Please let me know if
> it works for you.
> DISCLAIMER: I also provide no guarantees. Hopefully your hard
> disk won't fly off the spindle or anything else bad. If it
> does, blame someone else.
Hi Frank,
FYI I succesfully used your above method to update the firmware
for the IC25N040ATMR04-0 hard disk that came with my Thinkpad R51.
Before the update hdparm -i /dev/hda
Model=IC25N040ATMR04-0, FwRev=MO2OAD4A
and after the update
Model=IC25N040ATMR04-0, FwRev=MO2OADEA
So, thanks!
however, the firmware update did not solve the 'head not park'
issue. :-(
sudo ./park /dev/hda
head not parked 4c
Regards
Gijs
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