Barracuda XT, Barracuda, Barracuda Green, DiamondMax and other desktop SATA and IDE drives

[PhotoByMark]

Jason,

Thanks for the info.  The drives came configured that way from Dell (Raid 0), whiched seem kind of silly to me but I did not get around to reinstalling using Raid 1. As luck had it I had another drive fell in my other pc so I moved data from that pc to the Dell. And now I am deep trouble. 2 Pcs with failed drives. I guess I can always pay a place to recover the data? 

Mark.

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Message Edited by BradC on 01-20-2009 10:07 AM

[Fuuss]

Could somebody send me this Iso please, or put it online

Thanks in advance

[JAdamz]

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Raidsum wrote:

If you have Raid 5 or 6 you can flash one drive and rebuild the array, one drive at a time... 

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My drives are in a RAID 5 array, and I flashed them by disconnecting them from my Areca RAID card and hooking them up to the onboard SATA interface on the motherboard. The array didn't have to rebuild; it was reported as "Normal" by the card after I re-connected the drives to the card and rebooted.

As a test though, I did flash only one drive first and hooked it back up to the RAID card just to make sure the array would recognize it. After it did, I flashed the remaining drives all at once without problems. 

Message Edited by JAdamz on 01-20-2009 06:57 AM

[Rodrigo G�mez]

My drives are in a RAID 5 array, and I flashed them by disconnecting them from my Areca RAID card and hooking them up to the onboard SATA interface on the motherboard. The array didn't have to rebuild; it was reported as "Normal" by the card after I re-connected the drives to the card and rebooted.

As a test though, I did flash only one drive first and hooked it back up to the RAID card just to make sure the array would recognize it. After it did, I flashed the remaining drives all at once without problems. 

I did exactly the same, with a PERC 6/i RAID controller. Updated 8 disks without any problems, the controller recognized the disks and the array and didn't have to rebuild or anything like that. I have a 7 disk RAID 5 with 1 hot spare. 

[Raidsum]

That is good news for people who have a raid card, I am using the onboard Intel Matrix Storage (Software Raid). For what ever reason, after I flashed the HD it treated it as a new drive and began rebuilding the array.

[Turribeach]

Seagate has now "silently" updated the KB 207931:

http://seagate.custkb.com/seagate/crm/selfservice/search.jsp?DocId=207931

"...manufactured through December 2008." instead of "...manufactured in December 2008."

We knew that already!

[WilliamH]

FYI 

According to the Register http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2009/01/21/seagates_second_fault_fix/ a second fix will be available in the next 24 hours

[AlanM]

Seagate Tech Support is working on collating all the firmware-related emails together and then sending out a catch-all for them.  That is hopefully why your case disappeared.   They are working on that as top priority, but the firmware has to be certified before they can do that.  I am really sorry about the delay, but I am confident that they are working on it as fast as they can.  As it stands now, though, I know they hope to have this all done by this afternoon, but I don't know if that is certain.  Again, I'm very sorry.


I have a suggestion.

Go to whatever link(s) apply to your drive(s).  

http://seagate.custkb.com/seagate/crm/selfservice/search.jsp?DocId=207931
http://seagate.custkb.com/seagate/crm/selfservice/search.jsp?DocId=207969
http://seagate.custkb.com/seagate/crm/selfservice/search.jsp?DocId=207963
http://seagate.custkb.com/seagate/crm/selfservice/search.jsp?DocId=207957
http://seagate.custkb.com/seagate/crm/selfservice/search.jsp?DocId=207951
http://seagate.custkb.com/seagate/crm/selfservice/search.jsp?DocId=207975

Then in the top right corner, click on "Subscribe" and give it a valid email address.  Thus, when those articles are updated, you will be notified. 

[MaxX]

PhotoByMark.. please take a look at - http://forums.seagate.com/stx/board/message?board.id=ata_drives&thread.id=6392

[iSoLateD1]

The firmware update wont work on my Abit IP35 pro either. I already had the drive become unusable a few weeks ago, so I need to get this flashed so it doesn't happen again. I just recenlty got all my games/programs redownloaded/reinstalled, not wanting to have to install windows again.