The Notebook Review forums were hosted by TechTarget, who shut down them down on January 31, 2022. This static read-only archive was pulled by NBR forum users between January 20 and January 31, 2022, in an effort to make sure that the valuable technical information that had been posted on the forums is preserved. For current discussions, many NBR forum users moved over to NotebookTalk.net after the shutdown.
Problems? See this thread at archive.org.

    Firmware update for Samsung/TSST SN-208BB Optical DVD ??? mine fails

    Discussion in 'Samsung' started by cognus, Dec 25, 2013.

  1. cognus

    cognus Notebook Deity

    Reputations:
    186
    Messages:
    877
    Likes Received:
    18
    Trophy Points:
    31
    I have a common Sammy SN-208BB optical drive in my 3 Series. its at rev 00 firmware. downloaded from several sites the later updates to the firmware [there are at least 6] but all fail, giving the "device not found" or "target device not present" or variants thereof.

    anyone know the magic to this? The windows registry does not show any UpperFilters or LowerFilters entries for the unit: it just looks like a generic device. Device Manager shows it as SN-208BB however....

    all help appreciated
     
    cognus, Dec 25, 2013
    #1
  2. John Ratsey

    John Ratsey Moderately inquisitive Super Moderator

    Reputations:
    7,197
    Messages:
    28,841
    Likes Received:
    2,165
    Trophy Points:
    581
    John Ratsey, Dec 25, 2013
    #2
  3. cognus

    cognus Notebook Deity

    Reputations:
    186
    Messages:
    877
    Likes Received:
    18
    Trophy Points:
    31
    yep - I have what appears to be a running Liveupdate program - when I execute it I get the GUI, no errors, but nothing listed either, which may be ok... I mean, its just empty. nada.

    looking more closely at everything: I was incorrect:; the fw on mine is showing "SC01". The others listed at Samsung SN-208BB Firmware Downloads - Firmware HQ are either the preceding SC00 or "SB..". So maybe what I'm seeing is that there is no later "SC##" to be had, and the "SB##" would be wrong ver of the device?
     
    cognus, Dec 25, 2013
    #3
  4. John Ratsey

    John Ratsey Moderately inquisitive Super Moderator

    Reputations:
    7,197
    Messages:
    28,841
    Likes Received:
    2,165
    Trophy Points:
    581
    It appears that your firmware (SC01) is already newer than that listed on the website (SC00) in which case the updater will do nothing. The info on the website also states that the SC** firmware is for Samsung computers while SB** is for global distribution (which I think means drives sold for use in non-Samsung notebooks).

    Why are you worried about the firmware version? Do you have a problem or just want to make sure you are up-to-date?

    John
     
    John Ratsey, Dec 25, 2013
    #4