Am Montag 31 Oktober 2011, 17:21:23 schrieb Alex Schuster: > Michael Mol writes: > > My point is that the numbers aren't what mattered here. My point is > > that SAMSUNG sold me a shoddy product, replaced it with another > > instance of the the same shoddy product, wouldn't replace it again, > > and never addressed a detailed technical report of a systemic problem > > in the same. Bad tech, bad customer service, and it looked like this > > was a more common scenario than among other manufacturers. All of it > > boiled down to a nasty case of being a bad candidate for spending time > > and money. > > Samsung, uh? Here's my story of today. My fried just bought two external > USB drives. I wanted to know which brand the HD is, so I checked with > hdparm -I, and googled for SAMSUNG HD204UI. I found a story about a bug > which makes the drive sometimes forget to write a block when it is > attached to a SATA adapter in AHCI mode and when the ATA command > "IDENTIFY DEVICE" is sent (like in hdparm -I or when using the > smartmontools). There is a firmware patch for this, this is good. But on > the annoying side: > > - You need to make a DOS boot floppy and copy the patch there.
nope, just use systemrescuecd. It has a freedos boot image (or had.. last time I needed it.. was long ago) > - The new firmware has exactly the same revision number. How stupid is > this?? I cannot even find out whether the drives have the problem or > not. Except by trying to reproduce the problem. yes, that is stupid. but you can just run the patch agan. > > Here's a link to the but I described, but It's German only. > http://www.heise.de/ct/meldung/Firmware-Patch-fuer-Samsung-Festplatte-EcoGre > en-F4-HD204UI-Update-1150154.html I also read some angry comments about > Samsung there. Question is, are other manufacturers better? And wasn't > Samsung Electronics bought by Seagate anyway? > yes > > Any idea whether an external USB drive case might count as a SATA > controller in AHCI mode? I tried to trigger the bug, but that did not > happen, so I guess it's fine, at least when being in the USB case. none. Get esata. > > Another problem is that data access frequently stalls on her PC, like when > transferring data or doing a mke2fs. After a while, this message appears > in syslog, and the process continues for a while, until it happens again: > > usb 1-4: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 7 > your case is crap. > Same problem with a GRML boot cd and on another USB port. Happens with > both drives. But it is fine on my PC. -- #163933
