Did I ruin the Angelbird 1TB SE drive?

[SteveNunez]

Hello friends, I ordered a new R5 but it won't arrive for a few more days but did receive the Angelbird 1TB CF Express card. I noticed the Angelbird website has a firmware update for the card but when I put the card into a reader on my Mac it didn't read the card and I formatted it with Marc OSX Disk Tools. The Angelbird Firmware update tool doesn't see the card and I'm wondering if I've ruined the card by formatting it in on the Mac as opposed to the R5 (which I don't have on hand.) Do you guys think I've ruined it or think the R5 can 'format' it and it would be 'firmware updatable'?

 

[PicPocket]

I put the card into a reader on my Mac it didn't read the card and I formatted it with Marc OSX Disk Tools.

At this point, did it have a readable filesystem? What did you format it to? The camera will format it to exFAT

The Angelbird Firmware update tool doesn't see the card

What card reader are you using? You can only update firmware using the angelbird card reader. But, are you sure you even need a firmware upgrade? The last one was probably a while ago and likely shipping with latest firmware. The 512GB SE I bought few years ago already have a firmware that works well with R5

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PicPocket

 

[BobKnDP]

I put the card into a reader on my Mac it didn't read the card and I formatted it with Marc OSX Disk Tools.

At this point, did it have a readable filesystem? What did you format it to? The camera will format it to exFAT

The Angelbird Firmware update tool doesn't see the card

What card reader are you using? You can only update firmware using the angelbird card reader. But, are you sure you even need a firmware upgrade? The last one was probably a while ago and likely shipping with latest firmware. The 512GB SE I bought few years ago already have a firmware that works well with R5

I was surprised that Angelbird requires the use of one of their card readers to perfrom a firmware upgrade, but that's what they claim.

It's very unlikely that formatting the card on a Mc has done harm. You may need to reformat the card in the camera, but that's trivial.

 

[rmexpress22]

My guess is that the update tool wants the card to be in a specific format, which your Mac didn't do. I don't think your card is faulty from formatting, it should be fine once you get your camera and you format in camera.

 

[Vlad K]

FW update is independent of the file system, and how you formatted it. You need Angelbird card reader to perform the FW update.

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Vlad

 

[SteveNunez]

Thank you guys for the replies- very much appreciated.

I basically put the card in a CF X card reader and the Mac said it was 'unrecognizable' or something to that effect so I used the disk tools to format it to exfat. The Mac now sees it as a drive but the Angelbird update software doesn't see the card; I suspect a 'format' in the R5 should correct this issue. I don't have the Angelbird reader so from the replies here it seems as if I cannot perform a firmware update anyways, which is a shame.

The R5 arrives tomorrow and hopefully should be able to format the card- I'm not too worried.

Thanks again guys- much appreciated.

 

[James Grove]

You must have the Angelbird Card Reader in order to update the firmware.

 

[SteveNunez]

Understood, I have a generic reader and thus won’t be able to update firmware.

 

[SethG]

I HAD to update the firmware in my cards before a trip to Africa a few years ago. Angelbird explained why you needed their reader. I don’t really remember but it was something like, it needed to do more than just a “write” and most (all?) readers don’t support this functionality, because there normally isn’t a reason to