Seagate SN06 firmware for the Seagate Barracuda ES.2

I've posted on the Seagate forum but have no replies in three days.
I guess they don't use Mac Pros.

Thanks ... Ken

I have seen posts there with questions about the same error message and when booting DOS on Intel the Mac Pro part of the equation is not really relevant.

I did a DiskInitError search at:

http://forums.seagate.com/stx/search?submitted=true&q=diskiniterror

Mine is the only match returned.

Thanks ... Ken

Message was edited by: sgginc
Google is no help either.

Google turns up little also.

Borrow a Windows computer. Have you done the serial number check? Maybe you are in luck.

My next step is to run DriveDetect in Windows and check.

Thanks ... Ken

We have four 7200.11 drives, all are reported by Seagate as affected by this issue.

We have NO method available to update the firmware - we have all Macs, and the only Mac with an SATA port is a recent iMac. And we all know how inaccessible the hard drives in these iMacs have been made by Apple!

Seagate has an obligation to provide a solution for the many tens of thousands of drives, which like ours are used in external drives.

I had the same "DiskInitError" but let it continue. After 2-3 minutes of this, a readme file comes up, F10 exits to the updater program. I did this with 4 ST310000340AS drives w/SD15 and a 5th one last night with AD14. The last was the only one w/ data on it (730GB) I used CCC to clone it to another of the updated drives. I held my breath and did the update. I was successful for all and my data was unharmed. I got my info from macintouch and posted there under NW:

http://www.macintouch.com/readerreports/harddrives/index.html#d29jan2009

Seagate was pretty useless. I see they now have mac info on their updater page.

Thanks ... I'll try it now and report back.

ken

It worked!!! Thanks.

See:

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1872464&tstart=0

for points.

ken

Hi,
additional info have been provided by Seagate for the SN series, now reporting both firmware updates called SN06 and SN16.

http://seagate.custkb.com/seagate/crm/selfservice/search.jsp?DocId=207963

Regards,
Armando.

Thanks all for a lively and informative discussion. From the information provided in this thread I've been able to find the new firmware, create a bootable CD and get FreeDOS to run on my iMac.

However...

I haven't been able to successfully complete the flash of my Seagate drive. The update program seems to pause and not continue after I command the program to download the firmware to my particular drive. I suspect the problem is that my drive had been rendered dead when I attempted to apply the update.

*Is my problem because the drive was already dead? Or has someone been successful on a dead drive?*

For the record, my drive is the ST3500320AS. I verified by model and serial number before starting this that my drive was in the affected group. I would have done the upgrade before the drive died but delayed it for user convenience. And as Murphy would have it, the drive seems to have died just minutes before I was planning to do the update. (sigh)

Thanks for your help.