C451 Firmware

[Dave10]

Has onyone found a lasting solution to the Konica Firmware problem? We didn't have a single flash card that the Konica machines would recognize for firmware, so I bought an expensive one from Memory Experts, guaranteed to work with Konica color machines, and it did about 4 or 5 times, as long as I only used it on the C451, and when I used it for the C353 it also worked, until I tried to change it back to the 451. Now, we are back to Does Not Recognize Card. Has anyone found one that keeps working, and if so, how are you formatting it, etc.?

[BIG PAPA]

Never had an issue. You can flash the card by browsing to it under my comp and right click select format. What does the copier do when you insert the card?

Or as long as you are using the Konica Minolta Firmware iImgaging toolkit there is the format function right there.

[Taminol]

I too have never had an issue with a card not being recognised by one of our machines. I have 2 cards, both CF 128MB. One is manufacrured by Kingston, the other is FujiFilm.
I don't use the KM Firmware imaging toolkit, I found it a bit flaky/unstable. I format the card to FAT32, then write it using CYGWIN and the CMD prompt.
What make cards are you using?

[Albonline]

I too have never had an issue with a card not being recognised by one of our machines. I have 2 cards, both CF 128MB. One is manufacrured by Kingston, the other is FujiFilm.
I don't use the KM Firmware imaging toolkit, I found it a bit flaky/unstable. I format the card to FAT32, then write it using CYGWIN and the CMD prompt.
What make cards are you using?

we have about 75 of these cards and hve only had 4 or 5 ofthem go bad, and then only after 100s of rewrites. try useing the cygwin tool. it seems to just work all around better than the konica firmware app.

ps both cygwin and the app format the card to linux.

[Dave10]

We are using CanRam 128mb cards specially sold for KM use. We never format with the imaging tool, as some of the literature says not to. I have tried formatting from my computer. Works for a while, then stops. I am using the imaging tool for writing. I will go back to cygwin and give it a try.

[buster68]

if you format the cards with windows formatting they will fail to write to the copiers. Cygwin and Firmware Imaging Toolkit will not fix the format, you'll to reformat with DiskHEX, and good luck with that.

[alexfixes]

Has onyone found a lasting solution to the Konica Firmware problem? We didn't have a single flash card that the Konica machines would recognize for firmware, so I bought an expensive one from Memory Experts, guaranteed to work with Konica color machines, and it did about 4 or 5 times, as long as I only used it on the C451, and when I used it for the C353 it also worked, until I tried to change it back to the 451. Now, we are back to Does Not Recognize Card. Has anyone found one that keeps working, and if so, how are you formatting it, etc.?

The most brand is recommended is sandisk which it has been working for us.

Solution ID

TAUS0703029EN* Solution Usage
Description

Solution

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http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...9-ab826e7b8fdf .

Ifusing a previous version of Firmware Imaging Tool, delete it by going into Control Panel=> Add & Remove Programs. Once the
previous software has been removed, install Firmware Imaging Tool 2.52.
IMPORTANT :The correct model numberbeing updated must be viewable. If the model is not listed, chances are thatan earlier version of Firmware Imaging
Tool is still being used. For the Firmware Imaging Tool version 2.52,bizhub C650/C550/C451 must be listed in order to see the correct files. Pleaserefer tothe
attachedexample.

Solution

[alexfixes]

if you format the cards with windows formatting they will fail to write to the copiers. Cygwin and Firmware Imaging Toolkit will not fix the format, you'll to reformat with DiskHEX, and good luck with that.

The best thing is then keep one falsh card for each machine and keep it up to date if there are new firmware for the machine, we use new imaging toolkit program. wouldn't that still wipe everything out hex and bin files........