Where to get Samsung F4 2TB HD204UI firmware?

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Limp Gawd
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I have a 2 drive manufactured before Nov 2010. One works fine, but the other one I'm using through a Thermaltake eSATA docking station and I just experienced my second file system failure. The drive is not accessible and asked to be formatted. Before that it ran a scandisk during boot-up and found some irregularities. Luckily the data seems to be there so I'm copying it off using recovery tools to a new disk.

Since I'm planning to reformat the drive I decided to look into the reported FW problem and update it since I heard drives manufactured before December 2010 required updates. Following links like below on the FW problem to get the correct FW now get forwarded to Seagate.

http://www.samsung.com/global/business/hdd/faqView.do?b2b_bbs_msg_id=386

Yes I know Seagate acquired Samsung's HDD business, but there doesn't seem to be any FW downloads on the Ecogreen drive page:

http://www.seagate.com/ww/v/index.j...toid=f8f3563a550d2310VgnVCM1000001a48090aRCRD

What tools can I use to check my FW revision without deleting data. I want to check my second drive as well.
 
There isn't any way to know what firmware you have, as the corrected one has the same name as the buggy one. I could probably find you the corrected one online somewhere.
 
Yeah... even after you update the firmware the actual version number doesn't change... lol.

You're in luck because I have the file (F4EG.EXE, dated Dec. 27, 2010) if you need it. However I forget exactly how you have to run it. You need to create a boot floppy disk or something silly like that.
 
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