Interesting find: Msata cards

[bigdaddyooo]

Had a 3550 throwing E7-80's and 90's. I swapped the Msata card out with one from a functioning machine. Now that machine is running great and the problem is now with my shop copier who's Msata I swapped it with. I updated the firmware via 49-1....E7-80's and 90's. SOOOOOO, I did a CN update and problem is now eradicated. So, it seems when you have a suspect Msata card, update it by switching the update switch on the MFP pwb and do it that way. No errors on this machine since doing that. Just an observation

[bigdaddyooo]

Machine has been running since yesterday and has NOT had an error. I had 2 errors before I CN updated the firmware.

[Nachoman4life]

have not tried to overwrite a failed msata, but will spinwrite a few when I have a chance, to see if its a hard fault, or just a read error...should we start a new thread.... Are the sharp msata cards rewritable, after failure.....?

[bigdaddyooo]

Been 3 days now and NO errors. I say it's a go to CN update a bad Msata.

[copiertec]

Been 3 days now and NO errors. I say it's a go to CN update a bad Msata.

What do you mean by a CN update?

[bigdaddyooo]

What do you mean by a CN update?

On the MFC PWB there's a switch up on the top. It says update turn that on then power up the machine. You'll see six blocks on the control panel. Make sure you have USB stick in. You tell it to update the firmware and then you tell it which file to upload. That's a CN update.

[bilyahn]

have not tried to overwrite a failed msata, but will spinwrite a few when I have a chance, to see if its a hard fault, or just a read error...should we start a new thread.... Are the sharp msata cards re writable, after failure.....?

I have had mixed results when re-writing failed mSATA. Probably a 75% success rate so we are happy but if the CN update will work on a failed card that would be fantastic.

Have a great weekend.

Bil

[bigdaddyooo]

I have had mixed results when re-writing failed mSATA. Probably a 75% success rate so we are happy but if the CN update will work on a failed card that would be fantastic.

Have a great weekend.

Bil

Like I said Bill, it was just an observation. That was the first time. I tried it on a card that was giving me E7 80s and 90s. It is been 3 days plus and the machine has not had an ever since that so it seems to be successful. Again, it's just an observation. You also have a great weekend.

[JLSam]

I've tried that emergency firmware update method before on a 3570 to no avail. To he fair though, the issue wound up being the board, not the mSata.

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[bigdaddyooo]

All 4 machines are 60 days in to a CN update..Not 1 problem. 100% here.