Tech sites are reporting everywhere a massive flaw in seagate drives that can lock up the drive and make it unusable (the bios doesn't detect it, you can't read the data). Haven't read anything about it here on the lists. Seagate has ack'ed the problem: http://seagate.custkb.com/seagate/crm/selfservice/search.jsp?DocId=207931 So, apparently there're a lot of drives on the market (including mine) that can die any day. Are those drives going to be blacklisted? It's still not clear if the firmware update is safe (some affected but working drives are dying after the firmware update), so some people like me is still waiting (and hoping that the drive doesn't die) for more stable firmware updates... Here is the list of drives+firmware affected, according to the support site as of now. Some models are still being diagnosed. Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 (http://seagate.custkb.com/seagate/crm/selfservice/search.jsp?DocId=207951) Models Affected: ST3500320AS ST3640330AS ST3750330AS ST31000340AS Firmware Affected SD15, SD16, SD17, SD18, SD19, AD14 Recommended Firmware Update SD1A Seagate Barracuda 7200.11, page 2 (http://seagate.custkb.com/seagate/crm/selfservice/search.jsp?DocId=207957) Models Affected: ST31500341AS ST31000333AS ST3640323AS ST3640623AS ST3320613AS ST3320813AS ST3160813AS Firmware Affected Still Unknow Recommended Firmware Update Still Unknow Seagate Barracuda ES.2 (http://seagate.custkb.com/seagate/crm/selfservice/search.jsp?DocId=207963) Models Affected: ST3250310NS ST3500320NS ST3750330NS ST31000340NS Firmware Affected Still Unknow Recommended Firmware Update Still Unknow DiamondMax 22 (http://seagate.custkb.com/seagate/crm/selfservice/search.jsp?DocId=207969) Models Affected: STM3500320AS STM3750330AS STM31000340AS Firmware Affected MX15 (or higher) Recommended Firmware Update MX1A DiamondMax 22 (http://seagate.custkb.com/seagate/crm/selfservice/search.jsp?DocId=207975) Models Affected: STM31000334AS STM3320614AS STM3160813AS Firmware Affected Still Unknow Recommended Firmware Update Still Unknow -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
