

Note: If you are having issues updating the firmware of a drive connected to a PCI Serial ATA controller or Serial ATA RAID controller, please install the drive into a system with Serial ATA connections directly on the motherboard (Onboard Serial ATA controller) and try again.

From the command line, navigate to the directory containing the utilities.Execute wd5741 -dall Execute wd5741 -d# Execute wd5741 -d? This is useful if a drive is being used under both Operating System (OS)to. Execute wd5741 -? Extract the file and place in a known location Windows:.Important: Please ensure that any important data is backed up from the hard drive and that the drive is removed from the RAID array (the array is offline) before updating the firmware.
