Looks like Seagate has been shipping drives with bad firmware. If you have recent Seagate or Maxtor drives, probably want to check out the article. If your thinking about buying drives, probably want to wait until the bad drives get sold off.
http://techreport.com/discussions.x/16246 http://seagate.custkb.com/seagate/crm/selfservice/search.jsp?DocId=207931 Need a quick way to check your model or serial number in Linux? smartctl -a /dev/sda | head -- When you tell me I should give proprietary software a fair technical evaluation because its features are so nice, what you are actually doing is saying "Look at the shine on those manacles!" to someone who remembers feeling like a slave. -- Eric S. Raymond -------------------- BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or BYU-UUG. ___________________________________________________________________ List Info (unsubscribe here): http://uug.byu.edu/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
