Seagate and I are done: 320GB AAK firmware - they won't help me with a HD swap!

[jeeka]

I need some help in flashing my pair of 7200.10 320GB drives. They are both AAK, but this tool says that I have a different part number. Is there another tool to flash my drives? I believe that mine end in -306.

Hi Knight,
I have not seen anything regarding -306 parts, only -308.

Also, When I built my nephew's machine, I got him this same 320GB AAK -308 Drive and this tool would NOT work on his....All the requirements were met but it did not want to flash to .AAM. They must have done something to the drives or there has been a new sub-division of AAK drives that I have not been able to decipher yet.

[Knight]

Hi Knight,
I have not seen anything regarding -306 parts, only -308.

Also, When I built my nephew's machine, I got him this same 320GB AAK -308 Drive and this tool would NOT work on his....All the requirements were met but it did not want to flash to .AAM. They must have done something to the drives or there has been a new sub-division of AAK drives that I have not been able to decipher yet.

Thank you for fast response. To bad about the news.

[RaZz!]

[...]Also, When I built my nephew's machine, I got him this same 320GB AAK -308 Drive [...]

why are you still buying their drives if you're so pi**ed about their firmware stuff?

as long as people buy their crap they won't change anything.

btw: go wd go :F

[syncrod]

my results and the firmware (.iso format) i used
http://larnelle.890m.com/barracuda/

[jeeka]

why are you still buying their drives if you're so pi**ed about their firmware stuff?

as long as people buy their crap they won't change anything.

btw: go wd go :F

I am not pissed off at them any more because they actually supported the drive after all.

The reason I still buy their "crap" is due to the fact that the Seagate drives are faster than their WD counterparts. I have to WD Drives and they are slower in a RAID0 than my 2 Seagates in RAID0 by ~10-15MB/Sec.

When you do video work like me on HD files, speed is speed. There is a difference in real world performance, especially when you start tossing fast RAID's together and multiplying the effect of the AAK Firmware vs. the AAM Firmware....

Hope that helps clear things up!

[Xcel]

Speaking about 320GB firmware, I have 3.AEK which should be the latest for the NS models, if anyone's interested.

[zfactor]

i had these and got rid of them right away. i was told by seagate after hours of arguing that the aak can NOT be flashed to anything else.. unless someone has been able to do this. i returned them to a local friend and was able to see what i got first. even though i bought them from fry's my friend at a local store (he's the manager) let me do a exchange with the on the shelf ones from there since the upc's matched..imo the aak are junk

[jeeka]

i had these and got rid of them right away. i was told by seagate after hours of arguing that the aak can NOT be flashed to anything else.. unless someone has been able to do this. i returned them to a local friend and was able to see what i got first. even though i bought them from fry's my friend at a local store (he's the manager) let me do a exchange with the on the shelf ones from there since the upc's matched..imo the aak are junk

They aren't junk, but they are impaired a bit. I was able to flash to AAM, but my nephew's AAK drive did not like the same Firmware that I flashed mine with. They might be doing some sub-model tweaking, thus changing hardware/software which would require a different AAM or totally new firmware altogether....

[thigobr]

I flashed my drive without problems using boot cd. Performance are better and only pcmark05 virus scan pattern gave me worse results.

My tests AAK firmware:





AAM firmware:

[lowtcell]

My 2 drives are AAK and AAE and the results with HD Tune were not great. I'm guessing I should flash both to AAM. Question is, is it OK to flash the drives already set up in RAID 0, or will I lose all my data?

[lowtcell]

Bump
Anyone??

[nfm]

AAK -> AAM





lowtcell, you should be fine, I just did it.

[lowtcell]

lowtcell, you should be fine, I just did it.

Thank you, just what I wanted to hear. I'll back up a few important files just in case though.

Update:

Got the AAK flashed to AAM, but the AAE rejected the flash. Is there a way tp flash the AAE as well.

AAK & AAE



AAM & AAE