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Once the first progress bar completes.  They should turn green, and then another progress bar will start.  Once the second progress bar is complete the LEDs should turn green and stay green.  If they fail to turn green after the first stage, disconnect and reconnect both the power and firewire cables from your Saffire.  This will allow the unit to reboot properly before completing the second update.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","categories":[],"tags":[],"storecat":[],"itemids":[29115],"manufacturers":[33367],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v17.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Check out the The firmware updater for my Saffire is failing. 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