X25M Fail to update firmware: please remove A: in config.sys

[idata]

Hi

I downloaded the latest firmware update for the X25MG2 160GB, burned the corresponding ISO, but the update won't boot properly.

See screen capture here:

http://barre.nom.fr/temp/x25m-firmware-problem.jpg http://barre.nom.fr/temp/x25m-firmware-problem.jpg

CONFIG.SYS error in line 0

DEVICE=A:\HIMEM.EXE

My machine chokes on the hardcoded reference to A:, and I assume it would likely fail on this line as well:

SHELLHIGH=A:\command.com /P

Unless I'm wrong, A: is useless here; can you point to or re-issue a firmware devoid of this drive letter?

This is on a Dell Precision T3400, in AHCI mode (though there isn't any other compatibility mode to set it to).

The same CDROM boots properly in another (older) Dell machine at work.

I tried modifying the ISO using winimage + magic-iso, tried creating a USB boot disk as well, but without success.

I guess I can connect my SSD to another machine, but I don't really want to move my SDD back and worth between home and work each time I need to upgrade it, so I figured I would mention what seems like an easy problem to fix...

Thanks

[idata]

The USB boot key instructions worked. Great. I had overwritten command.com in a previous attempt yesterday, or maybe my other USB key was at fault. Your advice may have helped as well, the USB diskette was set to ON in the BIOS, even though I didn't have any; that may have hijacked A: in the past. Thanks!

For what it's worth, http://www.steelbytes.com/?mid=20&cmd=download&pid=1&lang=eng HD-Speed reports between 220 and 240 MB/sec on read. It's about twice as fast as my previous drive, a pretty decent 300GB SAS Hitachi UltraStar at 15,000 RPM on a dedicated SAS controller. And oh so much quieter. Though it's likely that if you set two of those 300GB in RAID0 you might achieve the SSD performance for cheaper, i.e. about $600.