                                               AEC6280M/6290M Firmware Update Utility

Important Notice:

Both of the firmware named aec6280m.bin and update utility named update 6280M for AEC6280M IDE card can apply to AEC6290M SATA card.

When You update the 6280M Firmware, the card you are about to update can not have any active disk access. The safest way of updating your 6280M is detaching all drives connected to 6280M,  boot the Mac OS from other disk (SCSI or on board IDE), then updating the 6280M. After updating 6280M, re-connecting all orginal drives to 6280M, then boot the system from 6280M. If you only have 6280M connect with drive and can not detach the drive from 6280M for updating, please set up one RAM disk and copy this utility to RAM disk, then luanch this utility in the RAM disk.

1.  Plug your AEC6280M on Mac PCI slot(please do not connect any device to your adapter).
2.  Boot up your Mac.
3.  Set up a RAM disk of 1024K.
4.  Copy the "update6280M folder" to RAM disk.
5.  Launch the "Update6280M" folder on the RAM disk.
6.  Launch the "Update6280M" program.
7.  Check the Version of your IDE card and the new driver.
8.  Click " GO ! "
9.  Chech again ! if OK please click " Yes,let's do it "
10.  Wait update process for 10 seconds.(If error appear,please reboot your Mac and try again)
11.  When it finished, please click " Quit " and reboot your Mac to make new driver active.
12.  Remove the RAM disk as necessary.

Notice: 
             1. You can update only one adapter at one time !
             2. AEC6280M only support UDMA 66/100 /133 hard drives.

ACARD Technical support
Email: supportrc@acard.com
