EFI Firmware / hard drive conflict

I have a third party hardrive running Snow Leopard, "EFI Firmware Update 1.7" caused a hard drive conflict so Apple Genius reverted to older version of EFI Firmware, told never to update to 1.7, will this issue be resolved if I update to OS Lion?
Thank You.

How did the Genius person revert the firmware to a earlier version?
https://support.apple.com/kb/HT1237
will this issue be resolved if I update to OS Lion?
Firmware updates come from Software update and are machine specific, regardless of OS installed.
Question is why don't you simply get your data off that problematic drive and onto a newer one?
https://support.apple.com/kb/TS1713

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I have a problem. I'm have a macbook pro Santa Rosa =
Model Name: MacBook Pro
Model Identifier: MacBookPro4,1
Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo
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Total Number Of Cores: 2
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http://img411.imageshack.us/img411/6606/26048579.jpg
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fishbert wrote:
oldmanpants wrote:
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http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=5747020&#5747020
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