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INTEL 320 SSD firmware update

Tutorer said:
It's probably motherboard chipset related if the updater can access the drive or not; it might only work with Intel chipsets.

Did anyone have success with an early 2009 nvidia based MBP?
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I updated my intel 320 120g sad on my mid 209 nvidia based mbp without issue.
 
Issue installing firmware

Anyone else having an issue installing firmware. Created disk that worked on 2 windows 7 machines. Tried on my 13 inch mbp. I tried holding down both the c key and option key. All I get is a folder with a question mark. Any ideas?
 
Jjt03 said:
Anyone else having an issue installing firmware. Created disk that worked on 2 windows 7 machines. Tried on my 13 inch mbp. I tried holding down both the c key and option key. All I get is a folder with a question mark. Any ideas?
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Try just holding down the C key.
 
Jjt03 said:
Anyone else having an issue installing firmware. Created disk that worked on 2 windows 7 machines. Tried on my 13 inch mbp. I tried holding down both the c key and option key. All I get is a folder with a question mark. Any ideas?
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Did you burn the iso as a Data Disc ?
 
It didn't work for me. I believe the problem is: if your SSD is up and running, which means, you didn't have the problem yet, the firmware update works great and without a glitch. But if your SSD shows only 8MB instead of 80GB, 120Gb, etc, which means the bug affected it, you need to run the Intel SSD Toolbox and do what they call "Secure Erase" to return the SSD back to life. Then, you apply the firmware update.

But, the SSD Toolbox works only on Windows.. this is the problem.

I don't have a Windows machine (I had inside the broken SSD). Now I have to remove the SSD from my Mac, put it inside a closure, go to a friend's house, install the SSD Toolbox, then apply the firmware, put it back to my Mac and install MacOS... blah!

Better solution?
 
gguerini said:
It didn't work for me. I believe the problem is: if your SSD is up and running, which means, you didn't have the problem yet, the firmware update works great and without a glitch. But if your SSD shows only 8MB instead of 80GB, 120Gb, etc, which means the bug affected it, you need to run the Intel SSD Toolbox and do what they call "Secure Erase" to return the SSD back to life. Then, you apply the firmware update.

But, the SSD Toolbox works only on Windows.. this is the problem.

I don't have a Windows machine (I had inside the broken SSD). Now I have to remove the SSD from my Mac, put it inside a closure, go to a friend's house, install the SSD Toolbox, then apply the firmware, put it back to my Mac and install MacOS... blah!

Better solution?
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I haven't had the 8MB SSD problem on my SSD. It's been running great but still can't install the firmware update on my MBP 4.1.

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I'm being driven up a wall here. No optical drive in my system anymore so I need to "burn" this to a USB key but it won't work.

I tried using Disk Utility but it simply complains that it can't verify the source ISO.

I tried using diskutil and dd from Terminal and it seemingly does what it should but when I try to boot holding the Opt button, it only shows my Macintosh HD and Restore Partition.
 
Not specific to this drive but I had the same headaches trying to update the firmware on my Vertex 3. In the end, I opened the computer and replaced my optibay HDD with the original super drive for the update. Not that much work. Far less work than the 3 hours or so I spent looking for a workaround. I should've just put the super drive back in right away. Would've saved myself a ton of time.
 
i went ahead and updated on a windows machine. since i had the ssd out i decided to do a enhanced secure erase and did a clean install of lion. Used my backup on time machine. boot up in 12 seconds and everything is a lot "snappier". my intel ssd had started to slowdown. i wasn't happy with it, i'm happy once again. oh and i enabled trim via terminal.
 
Jjt03 said:
Anyone else having an issue installing firmware. Created disk that worked on 2 windows 7 machines. Tried on my 13 inch mbp. I tried holding down both the c key and option key. All I get is a folder with a question mark. Any ideas?
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I am getting the same thing, which is the folder with a question mark in it.
 
From having done a Micron C400 firmware update and this update. The key that worked for me was opening the ISO using Disk Utility and burning the CD using Disk Utility. I don't know why, but using other Burn software to burn the disk didn't work for me even though the content on the discs appear to be the same.
 
bozz2006 said:
Not specific to this drive but I had the same headaches trying to update the firmware on my Vertex 3. In the end, I opened the computer and replaced my optibay HDD with the original super drive for the update. Not that much work. Far less work than the 3 hours or so I spent looking for a workaround. I should've just put the super drive back in right away. Would've saved myself a ton of time.
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This is the route I ultimately took. Couldn't get the machine to recognize the external CD-rom drive.
 
Just an FYI update. The firmware utility wasn't able to find my drive in an early 2008 Macbook. I pulled the drive and hooked it up to my windows desktop motherboard. Booted from the CD, it found the drive and updated the firmware no problem. I have a 600GB engineering sample.
 
This might be a silly question, but am not sure so thought I'd ask. I installed a 320 in my 08' 4.1 MB and before formatting the SSD to Apple compatibility (forgot proper name) I ran the firmware update and it applied it without problem.

But then, I realized, oh crap, need to format HD, so ran Disk Utility and formatted the HD. Was the firmware update erased when I formatted the new drive?
 
No, the firmware is applied to the the controllers flash memory. Formatting your drive will not have any impact on this.
 
Ive tried installing the firmware on my iMac, and through a Toshiba laptop running 7, and neither of them work. I removed the SSD from my imac, and put it in an external case, but nothing seems to find it, and I keep getting the same message, which is:

Intel SSD is not attached or is disabled.
If you know an Intel SSD is installed and correctly connected to your system, please
contact Intel Customer Support for further assistance at the following website:
http://www.intel.com/go/ssdsupport.


Anyone know what I might be doing wrong?
 
So you got it to work, but HOW?

For all of you who have been posting that it worked great, how did you do it?

I've burned the .iso to a CD (by right clicking on the .iso file, opening in Disk Utility, and using right click again to get another menu to burn it to a blank CDR).

Then booted into the disk by restarting and holding down the C key for a while after the chime.

Then I see the FreeDOS message, and get the two prompts asking me whether I've read the readme and agree to the terms...

Then it can't detect the drive.

For those who got past this, what cable is it connected with? I'm using mine with an external enclosure, and so far have tried Firewire 800, USB, and a combination of both of those in case it was a power problem.

The drive is already partitioned.

I'd be happy just to be able to check the firmware version.

But in the meantime, has anyone gotten this to work with an external enclosure, and what cable were you using?
 
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