From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mark Lord Subject: Re: Faulty seagate drives, are going to be blacklisted? Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 18:56:50 -0500 Message-ID: <497E4DC2.1090708@rtr.ca> References: <20090120002923.065f24ca@diego-desktop> <497E0940.3020409@ij.net> <497E14DD.20506@rtr.ca> <200901261557.42752.gene.heskett@verizon.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from rtr.ca ([76.10.145.34]:50314 "EHLO mail.rtr.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751702AbZAZX4x (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Jan 2009 18:56:53 -0500 In-Reply-To: <200901261557.42752.gene.heskett@verizon.net> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Gene Heskett Cc: Felix Miata , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org 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