Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 19 Jan 2009 20:55:05 -0600 | From | Robert Hancock <> | Subject | Re: Faulty seagate drives, are going to be blacklisted? |
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Diego Calleja wrote: > 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? It's > still not clear if the firmware update is safe (some affected but > working drives are dying after the firmware update), so some people > like me is still waiting (and hoping that the drive doesn't die) for > more stable firmware updates... > > Here is the list of drives+firmware affected, according to the support site > as of now. Some models are still being diagnosed.
There are a few drives which are currently marked to disable NCQ and warn the user that the firmware that should be upgraded:
ST31500341AS ST31000333AS ST3640623AS ST3640323AS ST3320813AS ST3320613AS
all for firmware versions SD15 through SD19.
> > > Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 (http://seagate.custkb.com/seagate/crm/selfservice/search.jsp?DocId=207951) > > Models Affected: > ST3500320AS > ST3640330AS > ST3750330AS > ST31000340AS > Firmware Affected > SD15, SD16, SD17, SD18, SD19, AD14 > Recommended Firmware Update > SD1A > > Seagate Barracuda 7200.11, page 2 (http://seagate.custkb.com/seagate/crm/selfservice/search.jsp?DocId=207957) > Models Affected: > ST31500341AS > ST31000333AS > ST3640323AS > ST3640623AS > ST3320613AS > ST3320813AS > ST3160813AS > Firmware Affected > Still Unknow > Recommended Firmware Update > Still Unknow > > > Seagate Barracuda ES.2 (http://seagate.custkb.com/seagate/crm/selfservice/search.jsp?DocId=207963) > Models Affected: > ST3250310NS > ST3500320NS > ST3750330NS > ST31000340NS > Firmware Affected > Still Unknow > Recommended Firmware Update > Still Unknow > > DiamondMax 22 (http://seagate.custkb.com/seagate/crm/selfservice/search.jsp?DocId=207969) > Models Affected: > STM3500320AS > STM3750330AS > STM31000340AS > Firmware Affected > MX15 (or higher) > Recommended Firmware Update > MX1A > > DiamondMax 22 (http://seagate.custkb.com/seagate/crm/selfservice/search.jsp?DocId=207975) > Models Affected: > STM31000334AS > STM3320614AS > STM3160813AS > Firmware Affected > Still Unknow > Recommended Firmware Update > Still Unknow > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >
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