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Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 20:55:05 -0600
From: Robert Hancock <hancockr@shaw.ca>
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To: Diego Calleja <diegocg@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Faulty seagate drives, are going to be blacklisted?
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Diego Calleja wrote:
> 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.

There are a few drives which are currently marked to disable NCQ and 
warn the user that the firmware that should be upgraded:

ST31500341AS
ST31000333AS
ST3640623AS
ST3640323AS
ST3320813AS
ST3320613AS

all for firmware versions SD15 through SD19.

> 
> 
> 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
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