Re: [t13] ATA Drive firmware update.

[Gary Laatsch]

Gana,       I designed Download Microcode (command code 92h) support for one of the drive companies when I worked for them.  It is standard ATA command for the purpose of updating firmware.  The driving force was most drive vendors designed their update packages to be very PCish and drives can wind up in non-PC enviorments (MAC, A/V, etc), so there may not be a PC type machine available to update with.  I know at least one or two of the OEM's wrote their own utility for updating with that worked fine with a couple other drive vendors as well.  The packets of data would be vendor unique, but the command support "SHOULD" be to ATAPI specification.  Of course, having been in the biz a long time, nothing is that simple is it?   gary laatsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- Original Message ----- From: Gana Pat To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2003 9:56 AM Subject: [t13] ATA Drive firmware update. Hi Folks,   I want to write a drive firmware update utility for ATA HDDs. (There are some rationale why I don't want to use Drive manufacturer's FW update util). What command is used to update the drive firmware in the ATA drives ? Is this standard across all the vendors ? Any hint in this area would be really helpful to me.   Thanks, Gana