Hi Jort, > Great comment and recommendation. I was using SB04 and experienced the 90 > second boot delay. Workaround was functioning as described before, however > udev rules might easily get overwritten so it's not an ideal solution. > > I have a dual boot OS. > What I did: > Booted to windows and downloaded the SB07 firmware (auto-flashed from > executable). > Rebooted to linux (I'm running mint): > > - Reinstated the original line from > /lib/udev/rules.d/60-persistent-storage.rules > - update-initramfs -u > - Reboot again and check boot time + dmesg. > > It seems to have worked for me, I tried some other reboots to see whether I > could get it to break again without 'success'. > > So it might be worth the one time effort for people to plug the drive to a > windows box and flash it, or boot to win OS. > > Download link I used (official tsstodd): > http://www.tsstodd.com/TotalLib/popup/Download.asp?path=fwdownload&lang=eng&fname=SH-S223C_SB07.exe > > Note that you should also be able to use MacOS with the separate TSDNMAC > firmware flash program and extracting the .bin from the windows download > above (it's just an archive).
Nice that it works for you. OTOH, I don't have any other OS on my machine, and removing the drive and taking it to a friend's Windows machine quite frankly seems more effort than the drive is worth. Probably "cheaper" to buy a new one then. But as long as the workaround works, I can use this. (If you know a method to upgrade under Linux, or maybe FreeDos which I could probably set up quickly, I'd still like to try it.) I understand that it's the drive that's doing something wrong, but so far udev is the only thing that seems to have a problem with it, everything else works fine regardless. It's not the first software workaround for hardware bugs I've had to use either. (The kernel has a number of those, and at least one of my former MBs definitely needed one to use UDMA reliably.) Such is life in the hardware-near world, so maybe udev could just adapt this little workaround ... Regards, Frank
