>Dell is planning a release to address this issue but no accurate date
>has been supplied as yet.
For anyone still following, there is still no ETA on the firmware fix
(i.e. it probably won't happen.) So much for Dell-branded drives being
more reliable and better tested than the non-Del
> Apparently the request has now been escalated to Dell engineering, so
> hopefully if we're lucky we'll get an updated firmware soon.
For anyone still interested in this, I received an update from Dell
engineering via our Prosupport rep:
1) The Issue has been confirmed in our lab and in the
> I just looked at the site in your post to the other thread and sure
> enough, these disks are ST31000340NS, although they are only running
> MA08 (the firmware released to stop them from dying after shutdown.)
>
> Still, given that they top out at just over 50MB/sec with sequential
> reads it
