OCZ Sandforce Drive Firmware Update 1.32/1.33 released

[Golden]

Again, If you have another running OS drive on your system you could log into it and do the update. I logged into my Vista drive and did the update from there without any problems. Of couse the drive is seperate from the SSD drive.

Anyway good luck.

Thanks Sygnus. Unfortunately I only have a single OS installation.

 

[kodi]

Can this be done from a linux live disk?

 

[sygnus21]

Can this be done from a linux live disk?

Not familiar with linux but this should answer your question - Guide OCZ-SandForce Linux based firmware update tool

 

[pooch]

Hello Brian,

I would recommend to create a system image first to be safe before trying it.

It says that BIOS needs to be set as AHCI to run the updater.

Thank you Shawn

Its actually my second flash now the last being to 1.29 from whatever it was when I bought the drives to enable the garbage collection.
My problem is that like others I only have one windows on my PC and when I want to flash my drives, my answer up til now, has been too remove the drive from my laptop and use that to boot my PC to windows so that I can flash my ssd's.
Not very elegant but it works Unlike my idea to try to flash the ssd's singly lol
I just had to follow you with breaking my RAID I just hope these updates are not coming tooooo often lmao

thanks for the advice
Brian

 

[pooch]

It says that BIOS needs to be set as AHCI to run the updater.

Just thought about this, but it should be set like this to use a SSD "strange" maybe some people manage to run them ok without AHCI

 

[Brink]

It says that BIOS needs to be set as AHCI to run the updater.

Just thought about this, but it should be set like this to use a SSD "strange" maybe some people manage to run them ok without AHCI

Sure you can run a SSD with the BIOS set to AHCI, IDE, or RAID. I just meant that the OCZ program said that the BIOS needed to be set to AHCI instead. That's all.

 

[Brink]

Hello Brian,

I would recommend to create a system image first to be safe before trying it.

It says that BIOS needs to be set as AHCI to run the updater.

Thank you Shawn

Its actually my second flash now the last being to 1.29 from whatever it was when I bought the drives to enable the garbage collection.
My problem is that like others I only have one windows on my PC and when I want to flash my drives, my answer up til now, has been too remove the drive from my laptop and use that to boot my PC to windows so that I can flash my ssd's.
Not very elegant but it works Unlike my idea to try to flash the ssd's singly lol
I just had to follow you with breaking my RAID I just hope these updates are not coming tooooo often lmao

thanks for the advice
Brian

LOL, you got that right. It's no small workaround.

 

[essenbe]

I know they said you can't do it, but I am hard headed. I downloaded the standalone version and updated to the 1.32 version from within windows installed on the vertex2. As easy as it could possibly be.

 

[Airbot]

I don't think they say you can't do it within Windows with the standalone, but rather that you shouldn't if possible.

But there's quite a few like you saying doing it with the standalone in Windows worked with no problems with this update version.

I've done it that way in the past with no problem, and then with another update had a freeze with it. Some get BSOD's, others no problem. Hit and miss, but this update's looking good for the most part.

 

[essenbe]

Maybe I got confused. One of the links you posted was the standalone version and it was talking about downloading it from a usb stick. The part that I didn't understand is they said it would work on an X64 version but you couldn't do it from a X64 Install disk, you had to do it from an X86 install disk. I have an X86 install disk, but like I said, I'm hardheaded. And yes, it gets me into trouble quite often.

 

[pooch]

Sure you can run a SSD with the BIOS set to AHCI, IDE, or RAID. I just meant that the OCZ program said that the BIOS needed to be set to AHCI instead. That's all.

Yes understood but I was of the understanding that a SSD should not be run on IDE as it wouldn't work properly, maybe there is still hope for my old laptop lol

 

[Brink]

Sure you can run a SSD with the BIOS set to AHCI, IDE, or RAID. I just meant that the OCZ program said that the BIOS needed to be set to AHCI instead. That's all.

Yes understood but I was of the understanding that a SSD should not be run on IDE as it wouldn't work properly, maybe there is still hope for my old laptop lol

Technically you could use IDE, but it would be best to have the SSD as AHCI, or RAID (if using a RAID configuration with them) to have the best performance with a SSD.

 

[Airbot]

April 20, 2011

Firmware 1.33 released.

Release Notes

Newest toolbox version from download link above - 2.36

Updated from my other non system Win 7 drive. Went just fine.

 

[sygnus21]

Boy those updates are coming fast now.

As a side note I don't know why it's so hard for OCZ to make their toolbox compatible with Intel's RST 10 drivers. Not like these drivers just came out.

Anyway thanks.

 

[Brink]

Thank you Aaron. Yeah, they are coming out faster now.

 

[Airbot]

As a side note I don't know why it's so hard for OCZ to make their toolbox compatible with Intel's RST 10 drivers. Not like these drivers just came out.

FYI, the newer 10.5.0.1015 and 10.5.0.1022 that just came about see the drive with the toolbox now.
intel drivers pour Raid/Sata/Ata/Ahci

They're not WHQL, but I've used both and they are working fine for me.

Just run toolbox as admin.

 

[Brink]

Very nice. I hope it will see the drives in RAID 0 as well when I give a try later.

 

[sygnus21]

FYI, the newer 10.5.0.1015 and 10.5.0.1022 that just came about see the drive with the toolbox now.
intel drivers pour Raid/Sata/Ata/Ahci

They're not WHQL, but I've used both and they are working fine for me.

Just run toolbox as admin.

Thanks. IE went crazy with the warning will robinson stuff about the file being a potential risk, but since you linked to it.... well

Anyway MSE says it's clean

Thanks

 

[Airbot]

That's where most have been getting them for a long time. Besides at Intel. They get them from manufacturers sites once they're public real quick, like Gigabyte. It's a safe site.

 

[sygnus21]

It's good thanks. I'll play with them tomorrow (later today).

Nighty night.