Fucking Seagate

[Kirby]

[quote author=Kirby, the AxeHammer Zealot link=topic=4380.msg159858#msg159858 date=1277231921]
There's a reason WD is the only one to try doing 10K RPM consumer drives.
They suck.

Reply to bump with statement: None of my many WD drives have failed on me.

now you're starting to contradict yourself.
it would have been easier if you just said nothing at all.

Re-read topic , any idea how to flash the firmware update without the PC seeing it ?
[/quote]


Because you wanted to read that like I said WD sucked, when I meant the idea of a 10,000RPM drive that's got the durability of an enterprise drive with the cost of a consumer drive. There's a reason consumer drives stop at 7,200RPM, and it's not because no one thinks that a harddrive isn't the most bottlenecking component of any piece of modern technology.

I'm not a blind fanboi, any company can have faulty ideas.

I'm just not dumb enough to buy one.  



Topic re-read, If the drive isn't visible upon POST, then it's probably bricked dead, absent the equipment to physically connect to said dead drive and reload it's firmware manually. if it's just not windows that sees it, use a bootCD.

[Vandamguy]

You can flash the hard drive without Windows seeing it using the bootable CD image, available from the same page as the Windows-based firmware tool.

we'll see about that after work :o thanks for the info HeK

@kirby /kiss and makeup.  get APB.

[Vandamguy]

[quote author=HeK link=topic=4380.msg159911#msg159911 date=1277243830]
You can flash the hard drive without Windows seeing it using the bootable CD image, available from the same page as the Windows-based firmware tool.

we'll see about that after work :o thanks for the info HeK
[/quote]
didn't werk. 
Utility tries scanning connected SATA devices .. the problem is BIOS not seeing it .. not so much windows.

[HeK]

[quote author=Vandamguy link=topic=4380.msg160101#msg160101 date=1277307819]
[quote author=HeK link=topic=4380.msg159911#msg159911 date=1277243830]
You can flash the hard drive without Windows seeing it using the bootable CD image, available from the same page as the Windows-based firmware tool.

we'll see about that after work :o thanks for the info HeK
[/quote]
didn't werk. 
Utility tries scanning connected SATA devices .. the problem is BIOS not seeing it .. not so much windows.
[/quote]

Thats a different problem. As Kirby said, you need your BIOS to detect the drive during post otherwise any tool you download will not work.