Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 2 Feb 2009 17:15:40 +0200 (EET) | From | "Catalin(ux) M. BOIE" <> | Subject | Re: Seagate disk freeze for 30 seconds then comes back (RecovComm 10B8B) |
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On Fri, 30 Jan 2009, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 07:07:48PM -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote: >> Would you expect that firmware would be shared between old tech laptop >> drives and desktop/server drives? Particularly since the laptop drive was >> built before any of the 7200.11 drives? >> >> I think this is a very unlikely part of the problem. Certainly the drive >> might be dying or other hardware issue. > > It does seem unlikely, although if it is a common design flaw in their > firmware, it could have been carried over from older drives and just not > be as noticeable on the older drives with smaller caches and less drive > space. > > Now if the drive is really old, then year it might simply be failing.
No, the driver is pretty new (less than 1 year old) and the use is very light.
> -- > Len Sorensen >
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