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Comment on Dell 2950, Strike the F1 key to continue by Kirkdude

Kirkdude — Mon, 14 May 2012 22:31:02 +0000

Thanks, still helping folks

Comment on Using Windows Azure tables to persist session data by SOFTWARE eXPERT - Migrating Existing ASP.NET Website To Windows Azure

SOFTWARE eXPERT - Migrating Existing ASP.NET Website To Windows Azure — Wed, 09 May 2012 09:38:09 +0000

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Comment on Seagate 2TB ST32000542AS CC35 Firmware upgrade by Niall

Niall — Fri, 04 May 2012 14:23:48 +0000

Hi Ajmal

I doubt very much doubt that attempting to ‘force’ the firmware upgrade onto a disk the computer cannot see in the BIOS will work.

The ‘force’ option exists only to allow you to apply the firmware to a disk that the auto update function has failed to work with, perhaps if your disk has a serial number the auto update tool does not know about. (quite likely since its now 2 years old!)

If you’re having trouble getting the disk to be recognised in the computers BIOS try plugging the disk in directly to the main SATA port on the motherboard, bypass any RAID or expansion controllers and check if you need to alter any jumpers on the disk if it needs to work in single disk mode.

Good luck.

Niall

Comment on Seagate 2TB ST32000542AS CC35 Firmware upgrade by Ajmal

Ajmal — Fri, 04 May 2012 14:13:06 +0000

Hello
will this “force method” work if drive is not detected in BIOS?

Comment on Dell 2950, Strike the F1 key to continue by Short Bus Russ

Short Bus Russ — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 16:20:07 +0000

This worked for me as well. Good info!

Comment on Dell 2950, Strike the F1 key to continue by Bocky

Bocky — Sat, 17 Mar 2012 10:26:19 +0000

Thanks this was driving me mad. This absolutely worked for me.

Comment on Time for Windows server 2008 and NTP by Niall

Niall — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 11:03:55 +0000

I’m glad it helped, I perhaps should include a comment at the top of the article that Windows Server 2008 / Windows 7 are interchangeable when talking about the time services.

Niall

Comment on Time for Windows server 2008 and NTP by Adam Logan

Adam Logan — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 10:44:34 +0000

Cool, just did this for the North America pool servers on Windows 7. Great tutorial.

Comment on Seagate 2TB ST32000542AS CC35 Firmware upgrade by chef

chef — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 07:52:57 +0000

Thanks for assembling this very helpful information. I’d been using a ST32000542AS with firmware CC32 in a D-Link NAS box (no RAID set). After about 6 mo I heard the dreaded clicks of death. The drive continued to operate but I replaced it with a WD just in case. I plan to update the FW to CC35 as soon as I can find a donor machine to access the SATA ports. I find it really annoying that Seagate hasn’t updated their FW upgrader to support USB-SATA enclosures. I have another Seagate 1TB that actually did go bad (lost data and failed SeaTools diag test) after less than a year. I took a chance on Seagate due to past reliability but they’ve really gone downhill the past couple years.

Comment on Dell 2950, Strike the F1 key to continue by JC

JC — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:46:38 +0000

Your post keeps helping people !!! Thanks !!!