R206231 Seagate HD Firmware: DEA2

@ziesemer

Ur right...7-zip does show the boot folder with those files, winrar doesn't and neither does daemon tools.
Which file did you burn to cd, the .iso? I tried that but the cd ends up empty and when trying to boot it just says it is not a system disc.

Maybe my dvd burner is just messing with me...i'm using the roxio app supplied by Dell and others have had problems with burning cd's in the past, though it worked for the few times i burnt something

 

Did you find the drive any quieter after this upgrade. I found that I was getting lots of disk access (every 0.5 secs) (lsass and a wave file) and eventually removed the Dell CP security. This cut things down to acceptable level.
I still find the Seagate drive noisy and am trying to reduce any software thrashing drive - Im using Kaspersky as AVP and that seams pretty heavy (every 3-4 secs)

Much noisier than an old Dell D400 configured with same software.

 

LPTP-LVR - I used the free InfraRecorder to burn the .iso to a CD-RW.

dtut - I didn't notice that the drive was "loud" before the upgrade.

 

It did work in the end ....indeed setting the drive to ATA in the BIOS fixed it, the "old" firmware update ran fine. drive is much more silent and doesn't seem to get accessed when nothing is going on any longer.
All good here

 

I notice that my drive is much quieter and the hd light does not flicker as much with the DE16 firmware. When there is no activity, it pretty much stays off.

To those that are having problems with the ISO, I used a desktop to burn a CD-r with Nero 7 Express. I used the PLDS-DU-8A25 DVD/RW drive to read the disk with success. I did notice, on another E6400 that I own with a TS-U633 DVD/RW drive that came with it, that I was having trouble reading a slipstreamed XP installation disk. It kept saying that it couldn't load a file. The same CD worked fine with the other DVD/RW drive. Perhaps this is the problem that some of you are facing. Also, I did not have to change the BIOS setting away from the default IRRT setting. I just booted from the CD.

FYI: On the 2nd E6400 that I have, I replaced the stock 5400rpm drive with a replacement Seagate ST9250421ASG that I purchased separately from Newegg. It came with firmware SD13. I took a risk and replaced it with the DE16 and it works great. Quieter and less disk access.

 

Hi,

did anyone try the update with a non dell system??

i have a thinkpad sl300
do you think the update would work with this?

it should, i think, because its the same drive: ST9320421ASG

greeings knorst