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From: Mark Lord <liml@rtr.ca>
To: Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@verizon.net>
Cc: Felix Miata <mrmazda@ij.net>, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Faulty seagate drives, are going to be blacklisted?
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 18:56:50 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <497E4DC2.1090708@rtr.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200901261557.42752.gene.heskett@verizon.net>

Gene Heskett wrote:
..
> Should I be worried about this one? Seagate 500GB sata
> 
> /dev/sdb:
> 
> ATA device, with non-removable media
>         Model Number:       ST3500320AS
>         Serial Number:      9QM5BB7Y
>         Firmware Revision:  SD15
>         Transport:          Serial
..

According to Seagate, that particular unit has a 1/320 chance
of being bricked at power-on, so.. yeah, I'd worry.

But there's a simple bootable .iso image with a firmware-updater on it
(along with an exceptionally confusing README, which you should ignore)
at these links:

http://seagate.custkb.com/seagate/crm/selfservice/search.jsp?DocId=207951
http://support.seagate.com/firmware/MooseDT-SD1A-2D-8-16-32MB.ISO

Cheers

  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-01-26 23:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-01-19 23:29 Faulty seagate drives, are going to be blacklisted? Diego Calleja
2009-01-20  0:22 ` David Rees
2009-01-20  2:55 ` Robert Hancock
2009-01-20 15:26   ` Diego Calleja
2009-01-21  0:30     ` Robert Hancock
2009-01-26 19:04   ` Felix Miata
2009-01-26 19:54     ` Mark Lord
2009-01-26 20:57       ` Gene Heskett
2009-01-26 21:34         ` Felix Miata
2009-01-26 23:56         ` Mark Lord [this message]
2009-01-20  3:32 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2009-01-20 15:30   ` Diego Calleja
2009-01-20 17:24     ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2009-01-20 18:18       ` Diego Calleja
2009-01-21 10:27 ` Patrick Horn
2009-01-25  1:12   ` Tejun Heo

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