[Clug-tech] Supplying power to PCMCIA esata connected drive

[Darcy Brodie]

John

I had a couple of those drives.  I was able to download a ISO from 
Seagate, burn it to a CD, install the hard drives into a computer with a 
CD, boot from the CD, and it updated the bios in the hard drives.  No 
windows required


Darcy

John Jardine wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I need to upgrade the firmware on a couple of drives (remember those
> dodgy Seagates?).  The drives are in a D-LINK NAS enclosure and Seagate
> doesn't offer anyway to upgrade the firmware in that scenario ...
> basically it has to be upgraded in a windows box.
>
> The only windows machine I have is a laptop. I've purchased an E-Sata
> PCMCIA card.  That doesn't supply drive power though.  I think I'm going
> to have to Frankenstein power out of a desktop while connecting the
> drive to my laptop ... but I really don't like the idea.
>
> Anyone got any better ideas?
>
> Thanks,
> J.J.
>
>
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