{"id":234,"date":"2014-03-23T14:53:51","date_gmt":"2014-03-23T18:53:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mbeckler.org\/blog\/?p=234"},"modified":"2014-03-23T14:53:51","modified_gmt":"2014-03-23T18:53:51","slug":"how-to-make-a-dos-boot-usb-drive-for-flashing-bios-or-hdd-firmware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbeckler.org\/blog\/?p=234","title":{"rendered":"How to make a DOS boot USB drive for flashing BIOS or HDD firmware"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently discovered that two of the hard drives in my server had a firmware bug that could leave to silent dataloss when used with smartd (and other programs). Fortunately, there is a <a href=\"http:\/\/knowledge.seagate.com\/articles\/en_US\/FAQ\/223571en\">firmware update<\/a>. Unfortunately, it doesn&#8217;t change the drive&#8217;s reported firmware revision so you can&#8217;t tell if the update has been applied already&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>To run the update, it says &#8220;Save the .exe files to a bootable media&#8221;. It doesn&#8217;t provide any more details than that, but apparently it needs to be a DOS boot disk\/usb drive. This link provides an easy way to take a pre-generated <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freedos.org\/\">FreeDos<\/a> image and DD it to a USB drive. Once you do that, you can mount it and copy the files to run to the FAT partition.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/chtaube.eu\/computers\/freedos\/bootable-usb\/\" title=\"FreeDOS prebuilt bootable USB flash drive image\">FreeDOS prebuilt bootable USB flash drive image &#8211; http:\/\/chtaube.eu\/computers\/freedos\/bootable-usb\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently discovered that two of the hard drives in my server had a firmware bug that could leave to silent dataloss when used with smartd (and other programs). Fortunately, there is a firmware update. Unfortunately, it doesn&#8217;t change the drive&#8217;s reported firmware revision so you can&#8217;t tell if the update has been applied already&#8230; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BznB-3M","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbeckler.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbeckler.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbeckler.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbeckler.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbeckler.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=234"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbeckler.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":238,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbeckler.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234\/revisions\/238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbeckler.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbeckler.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbeckler.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}