On 1/16/2009 9:31 PM, Stuart Jansen wrote:
Looks like Seagate has been shipping drives with bad firmware. If you
have recent Seagate or Maxtor drives, probably want to check out the
article. If your thinking about buying drives, probably want to wait
until the bad drives get sold off.
http://techreport.com/discussions.x/16246
http://seagate.custkb.com/seagate/crm/selfservice/search.jsp?DocId=207931
Thanks for the heads up. I have 3 x 1TB Seagate drives on my home file
server (model ST31000340AS). I contacted the support, and they said the
updated firmware for these drives won't be available till next week. He
did mention that even if the disks do experience this problem, the data
won't be affected, just the controller. If needed free data recovery is
an option with this issue.
Thanks,
Kenneth
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