On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 09:31:48PM -0700, 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.
Seagate firmware fix bricks Barracudas Killer cure By Chris Mellor Posted in Enterprise, 21st January 2009 10:42 GMT The updated firmware Seagate issued to solve 1TB Barracuda drive faults is causing 500GB Barracuda drives to fail. The original fault was that Barracuda 7200.11 drives made in Thailand (ref: ST31000340AS with firmware level SD15) were failing at boot time with a firmware error that locked the drive up and rendered it inoperable. Other Seagate drives - DiamondMax 22 and Barracuda ES.2 SATA - were affected as well. http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2009/01/21/seagate_firmware_fix_breaks_barracudas/ -- Charles Curley /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ / Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email http://www.charlescurley.com / \ No M$ Word docs in email Key fingerprint = CE5C 6645 A45A 64E4 94C0 809C FFF6 4C48 4ECD DFDB
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