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
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