ACE Lab PC-3000 Express Manual
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010101011001101010101100110101010110011010101011001101010101100110101010110011010101011001101001101010101100110101010110011010101011001101010101100110101010110011010101011001101010101100110101010110110101010111010101011001101010101101101010100110101010011010110110110101010010110110101011001100110101010110101011110101111101010110110101010011111011011101101100110111011110111101011111Seagate PC-3000 EXPRESS / UDMA / PORTABLE F3 architecture ACE LabTechnical support: ts@acelab.ruPhone: +7 863 201 50 0628 ts.acelaboratory.comattempts to work with these items should be performed in the terminal. 'ATA(direct)' option means that the drivefeatures a native command for access to Sys Files; therefore, the utility will use it for further work. 'ATA(indirect)'option means that the firmware has no internal factory commands for operations with Sys Files. In that case the utilitywill attempt to access the service information using the commands for operations with modules as a "bypass".6.2. LoaderThe submenu contains two commands: Create loader and Update Microcode.6.3. C reate loaderThis menu item allows you to build from the service information of a connected HDD a data file in Update Microcodecommand format; the file will consist of the Disk FW Overlay (ROM overlay) and firmware overlays. That *.lod filecan be used then to restore corrupted overlays in a compatible drive or to load some of them to HDD memory. Atpresent Disk FW Overlay recording is only possible to disk surface while the firmware overlays can be loaded to HDDRAM without their recording to the SA. The fact allows in some cases to start a drive with impaired writingfunctionality. The generated file does not contain complete or partial ROM data; therefore, the loader created by theutility cannot be employed for automatic firmware updates.6.4. U pdate MicrocodeThis menu item can be used to start the files loading / updating the drive firmware with the standard Update Microcode(92h) ATA command. Files in that format include both native Seagate firmware update files and the overlay loadingfiles generated by the utility documented here.Fig. 6.2The dialog allows to choose the source file in a profile or database, and the mode that will be used to upload it - mode7 1 (loading in a single block) or mode 3 (multiple blocks). The latter mode has been introduced in the ATA standard tosupport large update files, which a drive cannot apply completely in one cycle. Support of that mode is indicated in theHDD ID, which the utility checks to enable or disable the block loading mode. In addition, the dialog allows to openthe content editor for Seagate Arch F3 *.lod files (the button in red circle). Below you can see a sample editing dialogcontaining a file for a 7200.12 Pharaoh drive update to СС49 version.1 Please refer to the ATA standard for the Update Microcode (92h) command specification. |
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