![]() ![]() It took about 30 seconds and I had to power off the machine.Įven if you don't set back the SATA mode to AHCI, Chameleon will come up but crash pretty good in the beginning, so reboot and enter the AHCI mode again and reboot and you should be good to go. In my case it found the ST2000DM001 and I then proceeded to the download which means it puts the new firmware on the hdd. ![]() After that you can boot the CD, and to make sure you can target your drive (remove other drives if need be) you press the S in the menu to do a scan, after you agreed to their blurb. The way to go about it (I didn't find this in the documentation) is to first enter the BIOS and set the drive to IDE mode from AHCI as we need it for MAC OS X. They provide an iso file which via DiskUtility you can burn to a CD and use that to upgrade the firmware. Even for Hackintosh users that don't have anything like windows on their systems, there is a solution. Via the Seagate website and their support I found out there is new firmware for the drive's series. Kinda makes you wonder WHAT WERE THEY THINKING!? One thing that bothered me immensely was the occasional BEEP/crash sound it was producing, and the inability of the drive to go to sleep. If it does, you're golden.Building a CustoMac Hackintosh: Buyer's GuideĪs an avid Seagate collector I was not impressed with my latest addition to the ever growing base of hdd's. SeaChest_Firmware -d /dev/sg0 -downloadFW EvansExosX16SATA-STD-512E-SN03.LODĪfter it is done you can run another scan and it should show firmware SN03. ![]() It should stay the same when you reboot, but it is possible it might change, so I'll repeat MAKE SURE YOU KNOW THE HANDLE.ĥ - Once you know the handle, download the firmware with the following command, MAKE SURE YOU HAVE THE RIGHT HANDLE AND FILENAME: ![]() It should give you the same information in your third screenshot. But if you want to be double extra sure, type: After you boot from the usb, you are already where you need to be.Ĥ - It automatically scans when it boots up, so you don't really need to do it again as the README.txt tells you. In the firmware folder in your first screenshot is the file that you need to copy to the root directory of the USB:ģ - Don't type "exit" that is what logged you out. I'll share instruction if you guys are interested.ġ - You need to boot back into windows and copy the actual firmware files onto the bootable USB stick you made. I have done it! I found a guy who knew how to do it. ![]()
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