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
next prev 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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