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

[ZenTech]

Yup, it's true.  Mine was bricked from the original SD1A firmware and I'm back in business, loaded OS and all data still on there.

http://seagate.custkb.com/seagate/crm/selfservice/search.jsp?DocId=207951

Good Luck Everyone  

[bugsplatter]

Hope Seagate management learn something from this...  We, the users, don't like being stuffed around, third time lucky is hardly good enough -- and I bet most are still wondering if the problems with these Seagate drives really been solved?  

[Valen]

Successfully updated 3 of my ST3500320AS from SD15 to SD1A. All Data still on there as expected.

(ICH7 chipset)

 

[GregInBC]

It's alive!!!!!

Yes!  Just flashed with the new SD1A FW and my ST3500320AS is back in business. It had been installed in a D-Link DNS-323 NAS box and thus was formatted with the ext3 file system butr after installing an ext2/3 IFS into windows I was able to browse the linux partitions.

I'll put it back in the NAS box now and see how it behaves.

The nightmare is over.

[myrdhinn]

Revived mine with all data... however, the OS on the drive froze once loaded and had to use reset button just like it used to with SD15. As long as the drive lasts I can live with the occoasional freeze as long as I have my data back.

[okorn]

Great news!

So my broken SD15...should I try to update it with this new FW?

[BluBear]

My ST3500320AS Brickuda has been rechristened Barracuda after a successful FW download. No data loss.

Time will tell... 

[schornj]

My ST3500320AS is still bricked.  It was rendered inoperable by the initial SD1A firmware release.  The new firmware was unable to detect the drive, and thus could not be installed. Any suggestions?

[KLA1973]

Success here as well with both of my drives. ST3500320AS, RAID configuration is also unbroken. All looks fine so far.

[KLA1973]

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schornj wrote:
My ST3500320AS is still bricked.  It was rendered inoperable by the initial SD1A firmware release.  The new firmware was unable to detect the drive, and thus could not be installed. Any suggestions?

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What kind of motherboard/controller is the drive hooked up to? Do you have another available (or even another computer with a SATA controller) to try the update with? If the drive is truly bricked then you may have to send it off to Seagate.