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Contents

1 Product Overview 1

Introduction 1

Installation 1

System Requirement 2

Hardware Requirements 2

Software Requirements 2

Setting Up and Configuring Your System 2

2 Using the DOS SSD Firmware Utility 5

Starting DOS SSD Application 5

3 General Observations & Limitations 12

Observations 12

Limitations 13

Appendix A 14

Troubleshooting 14

Appendix B 15

Glossary 15

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PREFACE

Organization of This Manual

This manual is organized as follows:

Chapter 1 Introduction, gives an overview and installation of DOS SSD Application with FWD Utility.

Chapter 2 DOS SSD FWD UTIL Firmware Tool, gives detail description of steps about the DOS SSD FWD UTIL firmware download.

Chapter 3 General Observations & Limitations, gives list of DOS SSD FWD UTIL observations & Limitation of DOS SSD FWD UTIL.

Appendix A Troubleshooting contains some possible questions and answers.

Appendix B Glossary contains an alphabetical list and description of terms used in this manual.

Conventions Used in This Manual

The following conventions are used in this manual.

bold Bold text denotes a menu number.

bold italic Bold italic text denotes a hyperlink.

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Chapter 1

Product Overview

Introduction

Samsung SSD Firmware utility will enable users to update firmware on spe- cific Samsung SSD's connected to the PC/laptop. Users can download this application which is a fully automated firmware download solution. The fea-tures of the application are listed below:

1. One step firmware downloads with minimal user interaction.

2. Auto detection of disks that need firmware upgrade.

Installation

This section will provide you with details about the installation of DOS SSD Application with Firmware Download Utility (SSD-FWD UTIL).

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System Requirement

Check that you have the following required items before installing and using DOS SSD FWD UTIL.

Hardware Requirements

System (Laptop/PC) needs to have at least two drives to update the firmware,

1. SSD drive requiring firmware upgrade

2. DOS Bootable USB drive with DOS SSD-FWD UTIL application

Software Requirements

DOS USB Bootable disk is required with DOS SSD-FWD UTIL Application and supporting files.

Setting Up and Configuring Your System

Follow the steps below:

1. Create the DOS SSD application with Firmware Utility on DOS bootable USB drive.

• Install the Samsung SSD Magician application on windows PC.

• Start SSD Magician application, Click Firmware Update menu on SAMSUNG SSD MAGICIAN application.

OR

Right Click on SAMSUNG SSD MAGICIAN icon on system tray and select Download New Firmware from the pop-up menu.

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Figure 1: Firmware Update

• Select USB Bootable Disk — Click Browse button to select DOS USB Disk from the pop-up menu.

• Browse Firmware Update Image — Click Browse button to select the folder which contains latest firmware’s download from Samsung web-site.

• Click Start button. The Progress bar shows USB bootable solution progress.

Note: The Start button will be disabled and USB boot disk creation will start.

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Figure 1: Firmware Update Solution

• Once the bootable disk creation is complete a message, “USB disk solu-tion created successfully. Restart the PC and boot from USB for Firm-ware Update.” is displayed. Click OK to complete the process.

2. Shut down the PC if it’s running any OS.

[Warning]: “DEVICE MUST BE PLUGGED IN AT ALL TIMES DURING THE FIRMWARE UPDATE PROCESS OR ELSE DRIVE MAY BE PERMANENTLY DAMAGED AND RENDERED INOPERABLE.” "YOU MUST BACK UP ALL DATA ON THE DRIVE AS THE FIRMWARE UPDATE PROCESS WILL CAUSE THE LOSS OF ALL PRE-EXISTING DATA"

3. Re-boot the PC with DOS SSD FWD UTIL application on DOS bootable USB drive.

4. DOS SSD application is launched automatically.

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Chapter 2

Using the DOS SSD Firmware UtilityIMPORTANT: The following section assumes that DOS SSD FWD UTIL has been

properly installed. Before proceeding, be sure to:

Successfully complete the entire DOS SSD FWD UTIL installation process as instructed in the “Setting Up and Configuring Your System” on page 2 section

Starting DOS SSD Application

The DOS SSD application is launched from the USB.

[Warning]: DOS SSD FWD UTIL will execute only in IDE/ATA or AHCI mode. Please check the BIOS setting and set drive mode/configuration to Native/Compatible/Legacy/AHCI modes.

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Follow the steps below:

1. Boot the Laptop/PC in DOS mode from USB Memory device.

2. The DOS SSD application is launched automatically.

3. Press ‘1’ to select ‘Samsung Firmware Download Utility’.

Figure 2: DOS SSD Application

4. After reading the disclaimer, Press [Y] to accept the disclaimer.

5. The application scans for the connected SSDs. The detected disk list is dis-played for a few seconds.

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Figure 3: Disk Detected

6. The disk details on which firmware have to be downloaded is displayed.

7. A confirmation message, “Do you want to Download Firmware on the disk?” is displayed.

• Press [Y] to perform the action.

OR

Press [N] to select another disk.

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Figure 4: Firmware Download Confirmation

8. Another confirmation message is displayed to continue after backing up the data.

9. Press [Y] key to perform the action.

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Figure 5: Data Backup Confirmation

10. The Firmware upgrade process will start and a message Downloading Firmware.... is displayed. Do not operate the system during the upgrade process.

11. On Successful Completion of Firmware, you will be asked to Power Off / On the drive. A confirmation message Confirm After Power Off / On? [Y] is displayed. Follow the steps below in sequence:

Note: Power Off / On message is optional. Depending on the firmware download type, this message is displayed.

• Unplug the SATA cable from the SSD

• Unplug the power cable

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• Plug the power cable back to SSD.

• Plug the SATA cable.

12. Press [Y] to continue.

13. A confirmation message with the downloaded firmware version is displayed.

Figure 6: Firmware Download Confirmation

14. After few seconds, the application is closed or it may go to the next SSD.

Note: If the firmware is already downloaded on the SSD, then it will notify the user.

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Figure 7: Firmware Notification

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Chapter 3

General Observations & LimitationsThis section provides with a list of DOS SSD FWD UTIL Observations & Lim-itations.

Observations

1. If the disk is unplugged during the firmware download process, the results are unpredictable.

2. The USB that has DOS SSD-FWD UTIL executable, firmware binaries and DOS bootable files should remain connected to the PC when SSD-FWD UTIL is running.

3. Accessing the disk while firmware download operation is in progress may give unpredictable result.

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4. This application should be used only with authorized Samsung SSD for the intended purpose of upgrading firmware.

5. It is a good practice to take a backup of the data before starting firm- ware download process.

6. When DOS SSD firmware download solution is not available then, an error message, “Firmware download solution not available. Please create it using Samsung SSD Magician Tool.” is displayed. Then end user has to per-form Firmware update using SSD Magician tool.

Limitations

1. AHCI or ATA mode must be enabled in the BIOS during PC boot up. The DOS SSD application automatically senses the mode and works accordingly.

2. Removal of disks when the application is running on PC’s with chipsets such as ICH5/6 that do not support hot plug feature, may cause the DOS SSD FWD UTIL utility to hang and a system reboot is needed.

3. DOS SSD Application cannot render the FONT correctly on some of the Dis-play chipset like Intel® Q45/Q43 Express Chipset.

4. DOS Drivers cannot detect the SSD connected to system when the BIOS are set to “RAID ON”.

5. SSD FWD Utility is not supported in AHCI mode on AMD chipset.

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Appendix A

Troubleshooting

Q 1: Why DOS SSD FWD UTIL application is taking long time to open?

A 1: SSD tries to detect disks connected to the system when it is launched. This may require few minutes depending on the num-ber of disks connected to the system and the hardware platform.

Q 2: Why DOS SSD-FWD UTIL application does not download firmware, but returns a success?

A 2: Initial firmware may have been downloaded onto the SSD and it may not have been Power Off / On by the user.

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Appendix B

Glossary

AHCI

AHCI is an acronym for Advanced Host Controller Interface. It is a speci-fication that allows software to communicate with Serial ATA devices. In other words it is a hardware mechanism describes the register-level interface for a Host Controller for Serial ATA. NCQ support is also pro-vided by AHCI.

ATA

ATA Stands for Advanced Technology Attachment. It is a type of disk drive that integrates the drive controller directly on the drive itself.

Boot Disk

A boot disk is a DOS based bootable USB solution that contains DOS SSD-FWD UTIL application and relevant files. Using relevant tools and procedures in windows environment, the boot USB can be created to launch DOS SSD-FWD UTIL application in DOS.

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Power Off / On

There are two ways to Power Off/On.

1. Turn Off the system and turn on the system.

2. Unplug the SSD from the system and plug the SSD to the system.

SSD

A Solid State Drive (SSD) is a data storage device that uses solid-state mem-ory to store persistent data.

USB

USB (Universal Serial Bus) is a popular hardware interface that allows users to attach secondary hardware devices to their computer in a Plug- and-Play fashion.

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