 Seagate 7200.11 Es.2, Maxtor Diamond 22, Firmware issue to update |
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  Fri 16 Jan 2009, 05:49
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People with 7200.11 hard drives from Seagate should be aware there's a current issue. The disks get locked into protection mode and then are "dead". There should be a firmware update to care of this issue before it appears. The faulty firmware is SD15. Until a fix is released, avoid powering up and down the drive, back up elsewhere. This thread centralize all the data about the working/non working drives. The related forum at SeagateA press realease from seagate is expected today. Gosh, I've got at least two three of them…
This post has been edited by lepetitmartien: Thu 12 Feb 2009, 03:50
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Fri 20 Feb 2009, 00:30
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The trouble is once it is bricked, either you have to send it to Seagate, which cares of the unbricking for free and send back on a new drive, or you have to unbrick the HD with a rs232 cable modified on a pc and it's a little geeky. Now, if your disk has been always and/or heavily used (like mine) there's almost no risk the issue appears as it's likely it passed the bug point of the 320th log entry. I'm still preparing my back ups, as I plan to install new systems on both the MacBook and the G5 (the G5 has the infamous disk as its system HD) as I have to tidy up thing anyway before flashing the disk. I hope to be able to do so net week at a member's wintel pc. 
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