On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 4:06 PM, Axel Müller <axel-mueller-74@xxxxxx> wrote: > I think it was about 1 1/2 year ago when there was a big fuss about some > Seagate drive models going bad because of a firmware bug. Seagate > provided a firmware update for these. If you haven't allready done so, > you might want to check their knowledge base if your drives were affected > and if you somehow can resurrect them yourself. [1] Random blog post on the issue [2] Link to serial number validation tool to see if it was one of the affected units: [1] http://storagesecrets.org/2009/01/alert-seagate-barracuda-diamondmax-drives-dying-emergency-actions-required/ [2] http://support.seagate.com/sncheck.html