From: Bruce A. <ba...@gr...> - 2003-10-15 20:33:38
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> According to my smartctl -a on my drive which reports to be a > IC35L040AVER07-0: > > ==> WARNING: IBM Deskstar 60GXP drives may need upgraded SMART firmware. > Please see http://www.geocities.com/dtla_update/index.html#rel > > This is good to know... however, it doesn't say on that page how I can > tell if a firmware upgrade is needed, and why... and even worse, the > link is dead for the most recent firmware (A46A): > http://anders.fugmann.dhs.org/ibm/ > > I was able to go to the older firmware page (A45A: > http://freemail.web.de/jump.htm?url=http://www-1.ibm.com/support/manager.wss%3Frs=0%26rt=0%26org=psg%26doc=MIGR-43972) > > and it brought me to the IBM firware page which said: > This firmware update has been developed to improve hard drive > stability and the SMART offline data collection process. It is part of > our ongoing commitment to improve hard drive quality > > Does anyone know how to tell if the model/firmware that you have on > the machine needs updating? And what pray-tell does this fix? I hate > doing disk firmware upgrades unless they are absolutely needed > (besides the fact that someone has to go to the colo...). Micah, I don't have any direct experience. However I think that IBM has a firmware upgrade tool that will offer advice about whether or not you need a firmware upgrade. It's very possible that upgrading the firmware will cause the disk to lose all it's data -- I'm not sure. Bruce |