News Ultimarc Emu Loader Programming MAME Artwork progetto-SNAPS MAMEUI HBMAME EmuChat Hardware The Loony Bin MAME Artwork X

Entrance | Main Index | Search | New user | Login | Who's Online | FAQ | Rules

MAMEWorld >> The Loony Bin Previous   Index   Next   Flat

Foxhack Furry guy Reged: 01/30/04 Posts: 2409 Loc: Spicy Canada Send PM Re: Well that's a new one for me... 04/14/14 10:13 PM Reply > Turns out the HDD that's been giving me trouble lately had a firmware update ages ago > or AHCI compatibility. Now I'm stuck copying everything over a USB 2.0 dongle for the > next 7 hours before I can see if it solves the issues or if it's really time to scrap > it. > > Never thought much about HDD firmware updates before... My two older 500 GB hard drives - Seagate Barracudas - had faulty firmware that could cause it to crash at any moment. The only solution was to flash the firmware... which could cause it to crash and destroy all the data on it. I waited two years until I bought a 1 TB drive and backed up the data there; then I applied the firmware upgrade and didn't lose a thing. I got lucky.

Entire thread Subject Posted by Posted on Well that's a new one for me... URherenow 04/14/14 05:14 PM Re: Well that's a new one for me... Foxhack  04/14/14 10:13 PM Re: Well that's a new one for me... URherenow  04/15/14 01:40 AM Re: Well that's a new one for me... GatKong  04/14/14 08:23 PM

Extra information Permissions Moderator:  GatKong  0 registered and 268 anonymous users are browsing this forum. You cannot start new topics You cannot reply to topics HTML is enabled UBBCode is enabled Thread views: 1075

Browser Test | Delete Cookies atom-guru atom-guru atom-guru atom-guru UBB.threads™ 6.3.2