Re: [Thinkpad] Hard Drive Firmware version 8 has been released

Yep. Mine shipped with A55A but I know that a A53A version existed at some
time.

When Disk 12 was pulled from Release 7 and they released a 7.1 version for
the "mandatory" update, I figured it was back, but now there's Release 8 and
it's back.

If anyone gets the courage up to install this on their drive please let us
know how it goes!

Cheers

>From: "Matt" <thinkpad@iconnect.net>
>To: "Starfire CT" <starfirect@hotmail.com>,<thinkpad@stderr.org>
>Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] Hard Drive Firmware version 8 has been released
>Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2004 17:01:24 -0600
>
>Look at the history. Interesting.
>The two files, A55A and A69A were added, subsequently pulled, and updated
>to
>new versions, as of today.
>
>Wonder what the dates on the previous releases were.
>Release 6
>Newly added
>
> a.. Version AD4A for IC25NxxxATMR04-0 (HGST)
> b.. Version A55A for HTS5480xxM9AT00 (HGST) ********
> c.. Version A69A for HTS726060M9AT00 (HGST) ********
>Release 7
>Newly added
>
> a.. Version A0B1 for DK23FB (Hitachi/HGST)
> b.. Deleted
> a.. Version A55A for HTS5480xxM9AT00 (HGST) *******
> b.. Version A69A for HTS726060M9AT00 (HGST) *******
> c.. FWHD3012 is obsolete diskette file. No need to update.
>Release 8
>Newly added
>
> a.. Version A5BA for HTS5480xxM9AT00 (HGST) *******
> b.. Version A6BA for HTS726060M9AT00 (HGST) *******
>Makes me glad to be a procrastinator. Lol
>
>
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>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Starfire CT" <starfirect@hotmail.com>
>To: <thinkpad@stderr.org>
>Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2004 4:33 PM
>Subject: [Thinkpad] Hard Drive Firmware version 8 has been released
>
>
> >
>http://www-306.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-41008
> >
> > The "this screwed up my drive" A5BA version of the HD firmware is now
>listed
> > quite publically for both the 5K80 and 7K60 series drives.
> >
> > I'm still interactively talking to the IBM tech (and forwarded him an
>email
> > address with someone that HAS the "proper" drive and is still having a
> > problem) so I'm completely confused as to what this all means. I mean
>they
> > could have fixed the problem and just neglected to update the firmware
> > version but I doubt that would be the case...
> >
> > I would test this myself but my formerly mauled 60GB drive is on it's
>way
>to
> > an RMA department, and my original 40GB drive has since been reformated
>to
> > be non-predesktop-less, since I was only using it as an external HD for
> > backup.
> >
> > Besides, even if I still had the 60GB drive the regular install would
>see
> > the same version (and tell me I didn't need a reflash) so I would have
>to
> > muck with the FW.PRO file, which still may not have worked.
> >
> > I'm still perplexed but the mess that this has become.
> >
> > HTH!
> >
> >
>

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