Perhaps you also need to flash the BIOS and or Embedded Controller firmware?
Shawn. On July 13, 2005 04:58, Gijs Hillenius wrote: > >>>>> 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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
