Stuart Jansen wrote: > 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
This looks like it's IN ADDITION TO their previous foul ups. I bought a Seagate after their first firmware debacle, and was hoping I am in the clear. But this one looks to be a bit more serious (ie bricking them when they're powered on). http://techreport.com/discussions.x/15863 I got mine in December and it didn't have the affected fimware. My drive hasn't frozen so far, so I figured they had gotten them out of their queue and were producing good drives again. Now this comes across the wire. I would say these reports, combined with the fact Seagate dropped their 5-year warranty, is enough to make me say no more. It will probably be a while before I buy another Seagate. Brian -------------------- 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
