Downloaded firware updater Rev 2.018 and tried to patch my WDBook 2TB drive. This is attached to my iMac-i7 and it’s the only thing attached per the instructions. Even rebooted the iMac before starting.
It’s been running for over 2 hours now. The message says “Updating drive, please do not disconnect or disrupt power to the drive” and the CPU shows at least 3 cores maxed out since it started. Something must be happening because different cores load and unload but there’s no indication of how far along in the process. I’ve never seen any kind of patch take this long, I could have copied the entire contents of the drive by now.
It would be nice if the online instructions had some indication of how long a ‘normal’ patch should take.
Anyone actually successfully apply this update? If so, how long did it take?
