I have never felt the urge to update the firmware on a HD so I would have no idea of how that would be accomplished.
It is a topic that has never raised its head since I started to use any of Apple's computers.
Wind it up and let it go.
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I intend on installing it myself. Ifixit has great instructions for this, which includes a guide for keeping the various screws you remove sorted by type and location.
Question that came to me was raised by someone else recently asking a similar question. Do I need to worry about upgrading the firmware for this drive? How would I even determine what the firmware version is? If the firmware does need upgraded, do I do it before I reinstall the OS?
I've upgraded firmware in windows machines and digital cameras but this is my first hardware experience with a mac.
The new hard drive is a Toshiba MK1234GAX 120GB ATA-6 (I picked it from a list of HD's that iFixIt gave as replacements they would install for my model iBook)
The computer is an iBook 12" 1.2 ghz G4
Thanks for any info...
grim

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