I see I left the original version out of my message. :) They all arrived with SN04 and I received SN05 from Seagate. Note that if you look around, people have discussed flashing this drive with AN05 (which is the firmware Adaptec distributes, IIRC). I preferred to contact Seagate directly and follow their advice, using the firmware they provided based on my serial numbers. Regards, Richard On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 11:11:56AM +1200, Richard Scobie wrote: > > Interesting, as I have just received 4 of theses drives. > > Can you tell me the version of both the faulty and good firmware? > > Regards, > > Richard > > Richard Michael wrote: >> I'll reply to myself again, since I've solved the issue and figure it >> might as well go into archives somewhere. :) >> >> After discovering Adaptec acknowledged an issue these (and related) >> drives on their controllers and provides updated drive firmware on their >> website, I guess-timated a drive issue. I obtained the new SN05 >> firmware directly from Seagate and the drives are performing much faster >> on the Intel controller. >> >> For good measure, I flashed the other three drives (on the Marvell >> chipset controller), and they're still fine too. >> >> Richard > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
