[PLUG] All better now (was Seagate ST3500320AS (was Re: 1 TB Hard drives))

Russell Senior russell at personaltelco.net
Thu Jan 22 13:28:35 UTC 2009


>>>>> "Russell" == Russell Senior <russell at personaltelco.net> writes:

Russell> [...] What is more surprising is an update billed as a
Russell> recommended action to *prevent* premature failure actually
Russell> causing immediate failure of what was previously an
Russell> apparently functioning drive.  And then having that followed
Russell> up by pretty much total silence about the problem, not
Russell> providing a way to immediately revert whatever /sbin/fsckage
Russell> their broken update did, etc. [...]

For what it's worth, after 48 hours of brickitude, a new flashing
utility and associated firmware appeared from Seagate this evening,
and my bricks have resumed their spinning platter shape and are
happily storing and retrieving data again.


-- 
Russell Senior, Secretary
russell at personaltelco.net



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