Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 07 Sep 2002 11:30:01 +0200 | From | Anders Fugmann <> | Subject | Re: ide drive dying? |
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DevilKin wrote: > Luckely I've been able to backup everything from the disk, and I'm running the > DFT now. The tests showed bad sectors, i'm currently running a disk erase. I have had sucess in firmware-upgrading these drives, after which all problems were gone forever.
You can download the firmware programs from http://anders.fugmann.dhs.org/ibm. There are both upgrade for 75GXP and 60GXP, or you could contact IBM for the firmware upgrade - They are not available on the ibm site. The programs are Windows thingies, which creates a floppy to be booted.
Regards Anders Fugmann
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