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I did read that if the flash was not working like in my case, you could put the bios settings in legacy ide mode, instead of normal and it would allow it to work, so if I see any problems I will do that.

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A, and the firmware is still showing to be the troublesome 1AQ10001 firmware, which as I understand it can cause problems if a smart device capacity command is issued while the drive is writing in Ahci mode, or in other words NCQ.I have been formatting my new drive which is a lengthy process, and while doing so I actually did view the smart info with disk checkup but I assume that is no problem since I was not actually writing files to the drive At any rate, I read that even when people run the firmware updates for the Samsung F4 it does NOT change the firmware number of the drive that can be visible by viewing the smart info etc.

So is it safe to assume that I have firmware that is fine, or should I flash it anyway even though this issue was supposedly fixed months ago I know there has been a firmware issue with the f3 drives as well, and I have two of them, and my newer f3 did have a newer firmware version visible from the factory when viewing the smart info so I dont understand why the f4 does not as well.

So is it safe to assume that I have firmware that is fine, or should I flash it anyway even though this issue was supposedly fixed months ago.

Anyway I did try last night to flash with the u.s.

F4EG.exe and it would not work and said I did not have the proper drive or some nonsense.

How many people do not even know about this being necessary in the first place The same is true for the F3 drives.

I actually have one of the affected F3 drives in a system that I am getting read to sell to a buddy of mine, so heck I guess I need to update it before I give it to him also.

Samsung dang well needs to get the number changed on these F4s and the firmware applied before the drive is shipped, and they need to be offering more than a dos exe file.

I have never in my life heard of flashing a firmware and the number not even updating.

Most of us here are pretty tech savvy, but your average bear cant begin to prepare a thumbdrive to boot to dos and apply this patch.For sure they need to release a program that will do it right from windows, heck even system bios can be done that way now for years, you cant tell me they couldnt write a app to do the same for this.

I got my F4 2 weeks ago and it was also manufactured on 072011 but I applied the firmware (US version) anyway.

As I say I tried last night to apply the F4EG.exe U.S.

I guess I will just try the japanese firmware and hope it doesnt hurt anything.

I do not want to load this thing up with data and then have it screw up.

Heck for all we know, samsung has come out with newer firmware on its drives that shipping now than is even uploaded, and since it doesnt change the version you are actually putting older crap on it.

This software not applicable etc, and something about responding only to ATA commands.So I do not know if something in the bios is set improperly or what.

I have the other drives disconnected and the 2tb set in ide mode.

I mean the flasher finds the drive and even reads out the model and firmware etc, so I do not know what else to do except just start using the drive and hope it was updated at the factory.

I dont know that I will fool with more samsung drives after this, it is friggin ridiculous.