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.

 

[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.

Can you confirm to me the firmware number after the update please?
I have found what is seems to be a windows firmware updater for that enclosure. so far in windows 10, installing it makes me have no mouse. Will try to install windows xp and see how it goes.

 

[skinniezinho]

Can you confirm to me the firmware number after the update please?
I have found what is seems to be a windows firmware updater for that enclosure. so far in windows 10, installing it makes me have no mouse. Will try to install windows xp and see how it goes.

On windows 10 this windows firmware updater gets me with no mouse.
On windows xp all is ok but it says it didn't find a valid chipset (either by usb or firewire).
Meanwhile found what it seems to be an older powerpc compatible installer, but if someone would be kind enough to zip and upload all the firmware files that are on the latest intel installer would be cool, so maybe we could trick either the windows or the powerpc installer to flash them

edit: managed to grab a macbook pro running el capitan to get the contents, they are here for someone who may needs them.In the weeks to come I will try to trick the powerpc updater to use them..or find an intel mac with firewire.
Apparently there was a 1.1.5 version that was ub...but can't download it.

 

[NewbiePPC]

Hello everyone, Happy New Year!

Apparently, I had already updated the enclosures long time ago and forgotten about that. The screenshots show the versions, Attached is the firmware binary.

I'm using a 2012 Mac mini with High Sierra and had to set the clock before 2017 or something to install the app because expired certificates. I can't confirm that this app version flashes the firmware, as I said I already have done it.

 

[skinniezinho]

Thanks for your answer.
I just go hold of a friends 2006 macbook running 10.6.8...connected the drive running fw400...
1.1.6: no go, it says something like no lacie drive connected
old 2.0.1 powerpc and intel, detects the drive but says it has nothing to update because it is already on 1.02 firmware from march 2007 .
Did you do update via fw400 or fw800? edit: I see you vendor id is different from mine, mine is 0x059F
If anyone got hold of the older 1.1.5 installer please share it, I am willing to try it.

 

[NewbiePPC]

I have archived the same LaCieFirmwareUpdater-1.1.6 so I suspect that was the version that I used. I believe that I used fw800 as I always connect the drives that way.

Have you tried running the app from terminal with sudo? I see some logs in my end that suggest that it's necessary