From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu Subject: Re: Faulty seagate drives, are going to be blacklisted? Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 22:32:25 -0500 Message-ID: <85346.1232422345@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> References: <20090120002923.065f24ca@diego-desktop> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_1232422345_3870P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from turing-police.cc.vt.edu ([128.173.14.107]:39026 "EHLO turing-police.cc.vt.edu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753248AbZATDce (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Jan 2009 22:32:34 -0500 In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 20 Jan 2009 00:29:23 +0100." <20090120002923.065f24ca@diego-desktop> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Diego Calleja Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org --==_Exmh_1232422345_3870P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Tue, 20 Jan 2009 00:29:23 +0100, Diego Calleja said: > Tech sites are reporting everywhere a massive flaw in seagate drives that > can lock up the drive and make it unusable (the bios doesn't detect it, you > can't read the data). Haven't read anything about it here on the lists. > Seagate has ack'ed the problem: > http://seagate.custkb.com/seagate/crm/selfservice/search.jsp?DocId=207931 > > So, apparently there're a lot of drives on the market (including mine) > that can die any day. Are those drives going to be blacklisted? The $64 question is, of course: What exactly should the operating system *do* if it detects one of these drives? Prohibit it from bricking later by essentially bricking it *now*? What if the drive already has a lot of production data on it? --==_Exmh_1232422345_3870P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 iD8DBQFJdUXJcC3lWbTT17ARAgSBAJ9lYdzmH4bNILEuzidr5rpMZsT+PACg81mX pZh6YQzWDxeyMx6UWTgHzoY= =LQ4L -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_1232422345_3870P--