Updating OWC SSD in Mac Pro

[steffi]

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.

 

[vogelhausdesign]

Bump for answers

 

[xgman]

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.

 

[barmann]

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.