Re: WESTERN DIGITAL 200GB IDE DRIVES GO OFFLINE - HOW TO FIX

[Brian McGroarty]

On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 07:00:55PM +0100, Nuno Monteiro wrote:
> 
> On 2003.06.11 18:27, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 05:59:28PM +0100, Dave Gilbert (Home) wrote:
> > > So even if you aren't actually seeing these errors, even if you aren't
> > 
> > > using RAID I'd suggest getting this patch.
> > 
> > Where can we obtain these wonderful firmware updates?  :)
> > 
> > 	Jeff
> > 
> 
> Its located here: http://support.wdc.com/download/ , near the bottom of 
> the page. Its marked as "IDE RAID Compatibility Upgrade Utility for non-
> 3Ware controller cards". There's also another upgrade utility, strictly 
> for 3Ware 7500 X-IDE cards.

Thanks muchly, Nuno.

Related, this update seems to require DOS.

Is there a way to perform this update without throwing down for a
Windows CD or DOS and a floppy drive?