Lacie fimrware updater

[skinniezinho]

Hello all,
Hope you are doing well.
As many of you, I have some "vintage" hardware keep on running.
One of them is a Lacie Quadra D2 USB2.0/FW400/FW800/Esata, which I believe is 1st gen.
Running a 1Tb HDD. Wanna upgrade its HDD.
Tried a 3Tb NAS HDD and it detected only 750Gb, not sure if it is the controller or the hdd. HDD returned.
I have a 2Tb laying around my parents house, and on christmas I will get back and get it.
And so I would love to upgrade the enclosure firmware to ensure the best compatibility possible.
The installer for Lacie Firmware updater was found here but doesn't run on my PB G4, nor on my M4.
Given that we need to connect via firewire, I would love to try it on my powerpc, so thought of grabbing an older installer/firmware updater powerpc compatible and grab the latest firmware bins from the latest installer.
So my question: does anyone know which was the latest firmware updater for lacie drives compatible with powerpc?
2 - As anyone tried this?

Yes I know an new enclosure is only 25eur, and it is faster etc, but I hate to have things unnused, specially when they are compatible with all my pcs/macs and the performance is ok for my use.

Thank you all for the help

 

[PsychoSync]

Hi

I have a Lacie Quadra D2 version 1, anyway the exact same drive you mention in your post. It originally had a 2TB drive inside when it was given to me and i tried upgrading it with the 3TB drive that was in my 27" 2011 iMac. It gave me the exact same problem, the hdd was recognised as a 800GB partition. I wasted a lot of time trying to find something on seagate's website, even tried going back with the wayback machine... Nothing worked until i found your post and the link you provided.

So i needed a Mac with firewire and MacOS prior to Catalina as i am pretty sure this updater is 32-bit only. My iMac 2008 running El Capitan did the trick. I got errors when trying to update the enclosure, even though it was recognised and detected an update was needed, when proceeding to upgrade it always failed.

I finally worked when i selected the updater app, right-clicked it and chose "Show package contents" and the tried running the executable directly from there it updated successfully. Now the 3TB hdd is working fine.

Sorry i am not really answering to your question about if it works on PPC but i thought the information should be easily accessible.

 

[skinniezinho]

Hi

I have a Lacie Quadra D2 version 1, anyway the exact same drive you mention in your post. It originally had a 2TB drive inside when it was given to me and i tried upgrading it with the 3TB drive that was in my 27" 2011 iMac. It gave me the exact same problem, the hdd was recognised as a 800GB partition. I wasted a lot of time trying to find something on seagate's website, even tried going back with the wayback machine... Nothing worked until i found your post and the link you provided.

So i needed a Mac with firewire and MacOS prior to Catalina as i am pretty sure this updater is 32-bit only. My iMac 2008 running El Capitan did the trick. I got errors when trying to update the enclosure, even though it was recognised and detected an update was needed, when proceeding to upgrade it always failed.

I finally worked when i selected the updater app, right-clicked it and chose "Show package contents" and the tried running the executable directly from there it updated successfully. Now the 3TB hdd is working fine.

Sorry i am not really answering to your question about if it works on PPC but i thought the information should be easily accessible.

Big thank you for your answer.
I recalled that my pc in my parents house has firewire, I will try the windows firewire updater from lacie, if not, it's a nice excuse to buy an old mac mini ahhaha
But it it supports 2Tb it is already good

 

[Certificate of Excellence]

Very cool. I saved that installer to my NAS for future use.