Updating OWC SSD in Mac Pro

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  1. steffi, Dec 23, 2010

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    So tried this today and so far no such luck.

    Drive is optical bay 2 and I've got a bootable bootcamp installed in tray 1 and when I run the ssdupdate most of the date it either does nothing or hangs immediately after dismissing the backup panel.

    One time I got it to say Downloading firmware 64 sectors and then it stopped and said Download firmware failed.

    Fortunately the SSD still works.

    Pretty unreliable software they've got to do this.
     
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  2. vogelhausdesign, Dec 27, 2010

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    Bump for answers
     
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  3. xgman, Dec 27, 2010

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    If you have a backup of the ssd install that you can clone back after the update, I would try deleting the partitions on the ssd and then try running the update again.
     
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  4. barmann, Dec 28, 2010

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    I've had the exact same issues as the OP; what Windows are you running in your bootcamp partition ?
    Mine is Windows 7 64bit, and the OWC updater is even crashing the OS after it gets stuck .
    No such troubles flashing a Verex 2. it's still a pain though.

    At one point I even bricked the SSD, had a hard time getting it back to life .

    There are no detailed informations by OWC re which OS to use, or even how to format the SSD one wants to flash .
    An OSX flashing tool is announced by OWC for Q1 '11, but I assume that has to come from Sandforce first.
     
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