Tags Adobe APFS Apple AppleScript Apple silicon backup Big Sur Blake bug Catalina Consolation Console diagnosis Disk Utility Doré El Capitan extended attributes Finder firmware Gatekeeper Gérôme HFS+ High Sierra history history of painting iCloud Impressionism iOS landscape LockRattler log logs M1 Mac Mac history macOS macOS 10.12 macOS 10.13 macOS 10.14 macOS 10. After a few seconds, press the Power button again to start the unit up, and the firmware should now be fully updated. Once complete, press and hold the Power button on the Promise unit until the button light changes from blue to red. Both models include Promise Utility for setup, management and monitoring, as well as a three-year limited hardware warranty and 24/7 online assistance. You will then have to confirm that you want to update, and ensure that nothing shuts the system down during that process. The Pegasus32 R4 is ready to use out-of-the-box, with the 16TB model offering four 4TB SATA 7200 rpm drives. img file, then click on Next to proceed with the update. Instead, visit the support page, make your way to the Pegasus Series Pegasus R4 listing, locate the firmware, and download it as a.
Then open the Promise Utility, and select the Firmware Update command from its Admin menu.Ĭlick on the Choose File button, locate that. Instead, visit the support page, make your way to the Pegasus Series – Pegasus R4 listing, locate the firmware, and download it as a. So if you want to update the firmware in your Promise RAID, don’t leave it to the app.
The Promise box didn't work because a driver for it wasn't. And it didn’t: the firmware version was reported as being unchanged. Hello, I recently received my Mac Pro Late 2013 I had planned on using a Promise Pegasus2 R4 with Windows and OS X in order to supplement the SSD storage. After the first issue and recovered successfully using Autosave, i did back up of the project file using 'Save as a Copy' command, and start working with that Copy project. When updated in this way, you then have to shut the RAID unit down, and start it up again, for the update to take effect. I'm working on a Macbook Pro Early 2011 17inch Core i7 8GB, OSX Mountain Lion 10.8, Thunderbolt Promise Pegasus R4 4TB RAID 0. At the moment, the new unit is looking very much like an expensive brick. I want to know if there is anything that explains why the older unit works and the new doesn't. It then kindly informed me that there was a firmware update, it downloaded the update, and claimed to have installed it for me. The R4 that I bought in 2015 works fine on my Z87 Expert board.
I first updated the Promise Utility itself, to the current version.
Like me, you probably don’t run the Promise Utility unless there are problems if you don’t have any problems for a good while, chances are that neither that app nor you have checked for updates.Īnother snag is that the app doesn’t always install the updates which it says it will.
If you have one of these Thunderbolt external RAID arrays, it is easy to let its firmware get quite out of date.