On Fri, 2005-11-11 at 22:57 -0800, Ade Lovett wrote: > On Nov 11, 2005, at 12:51 , Amit Rao wrote: > > 0) Upgrade to Seagate 10K.7 drive firmware level 0008. That seems > > to help. One "ahd sequencer error" message still appears at boot, > > but after that it seems to work (with your fingers crossed). > > Of course, you then spend far too much time ensuring that any > replacement drives are flashed appropriately (which, afaict, > *requires* Windows to do), and also running the gauntlet of further > problems down the road when you throw the drives into a new machine > with a subtly different HBA bios. > > No thanks, I'll stick with option (2). A few more months, and > Seagate drives will be a nice distant memory that I can look back on > in a few years, and laugh nervously about. > > -aDe
There was a flash-utility that was [hand-rolled?] able to run on FreeBSD and I did successfully flash some Seagate drives' firmware -- didn't help any as far as the error [messages] went so we dropped Seagate drives altogether a little over a year ago. Since then we have been using the IBM/Hitachi drives with no issues (much easier to change drive manufacturers than try to respec the servers we were using or do some of the borderline-absurd workarounds that Seagate suggested). Sven _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
