On Tue, 20 Jan 2009 00:29:23 +0100, Diego Calleja said: > 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? The $64 question is, of course: What exactly should the operating system *do* if it detects one of these drives? Prohibit it from bricking later by essentially bricking it *now*? What if the drive already has a lot of production data on it?
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