New VelociRaptor Firmware problem.

[REVHEAD]

Has anyone successfully flashed there Veloci Raptors with this firmware? http://www.station-drivers.com/page/disques.htm the firmware is allso located on the Dell site http://support.us.dell.com/support/...typeid=-1&dateid=-1&formatid=-1&fileid=381344 , this is for all Velociraptor models 75gb and up.

When I burn the image to cd and boot, the utility goes to load up and then I get a error "error loading Kernel" .

If you have successfully flashed please tell me how to get around this problem, thanks in advance.



EDIT- I worked it out I Had my onboard sata controller setup wrong for my cdrom, I have flashed, and it works.

 

[95Viper]

Thank you.
Glad you got it worked out.
It says performance enhancements, too.
Have you seen any. I am going to bench mine then update and re-bench, to see.

Edit: Got the update completed. It updated all three of my V-Raptors to the new bios.
I really see no performance improvements; there is a 10MB\sec increase in burst rate, but the transfer rate is, almost, identical when comparing before and after.
Before:

After:

 

[REVHEAD]

My seek times or access times as you could call them went up from 6.3 to 6.9, and basically everything else is about the same give or take, but before I flashed my drives I had 2 drives with 01 firmware and 2 with 03, now all my drives are 04 I am happy enough.

I am glad to see your flash went successfully, maybe this thread can help a few more Raptor guys out there as well, thanks for posting your results. I wish i took a screen of mine before I flashed.

 

[travva]

hey guys is this for the velociraptor 300gb too? i have that one and it used to be my os drive but im wondering if i should update the firmware on it.

 

[95Viper]

This firmware will update the following models from V03 to V04.

WD800HLFS-75G6U1 DP/N N961M
WD1500HLFS-75G6U1 DP/N N962M
WD1600HLFS-75G6U1 DP/N N963M
WD3000HLFS-75G6U1 DP/N N965M

It did my 74s and 150. So, I would say,yes,IMO.
If it won't; it will tell you and stop.
Oh, I went from V01 to V04.

 

[travva]

thanks viper!

 

[patryk86s]

Has anyone successfully flashed there Veloci Raptors with this firmware? http://www.station-drivers.com/page/disques.htm the firmware is allso located on the Dell site http://support.us.dell.com/support/...typeid=-1&dateid=-1&formatid=-1&fileid=381344 , this is for all Velociraptor models 75gb and up.

When I burn the image to cd and boot, the utility goes to load up and then I get a error "error loading Kernel" .

If you have successfully flashed please tell me how to get around this problem, thanks in advance.



EDIT- I worked it out I Had my onboard sata controller setup wrong for my cdrom, I have flashed, and it works.

Hi, I realise it's been many years since this post was created, but I'm building a retro PC and would love the firmware Version 04.04V04 for my WD1600HLFS-75G6U1
Would you happen to have a copy or a working link to one?
Many thanks