> > Recovering from Seagate's problematic 7200.11 firmware. > > > first off, several other product lines are affected, too. In > particular, the popular ES and ES.2 "server grade" disks are also > affected, to the best of my knowledge. Seagate only admits to problems > with ES.2 drives, not ES drives, though.
Word is the Maxtor Diamond Max 21 line is also affected. > We need to do this from within a running system. Yes. > My first idea is that smartmontools probably provide much of the > required framework alreaedy, and could possibly extended to work with > this situation, too. Thanks. I downloaded smartmontools, fixed a couple of ILP vs LP64 bugs, and it appears to provide the number of SMART log entries. > > Is Maxtorman correct about the 320 log entries? > > My dealer told me a similar story, but I don't know where he had it > from. I guess the next step is to find out if Maxtorman is correct about this 320 log entries stuff, and if the SMART log entries as reported by smartmontools is the log to worry about, or if there is some other log. E.g. see the "Read Log Ext" and "Write Log Extended" commands I posted yesterday. I don't know if these use the same log as the SMART commands or if this is something different.
