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

[victord66]

  I want to know how all the original posters of this forum are doing. There were many people that were going off like crazy, but have now dissapeared. If any of you are still viewing these posts, can you let everyone know how your hard drives are holding up and whether they have been fixed or not? Status update please.

I thought I might have several affected drives but after running the utility I'm told otherwise:

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SNo Serial number Result Action

1 3QD00G9Q  Drive is not affected. No action required.

2 6QE0AY11   Drive is not affected. No action required.

3 5QJ0LBAM   Drive is not affected. No action required.

I'm not sure if I should believe this but in any event all of my drives seem to work just fine and are all above70% on the Seagate Health Monitor test. 

I have complete and regular backups on an external usb drive (not Seagate), so for now I'll just keep using them till they fail.    That might be tomorrow or in 5 years.   Who knows?

[Karlston]

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bioshock wrote:

Serial number check utility says i need not update my firmware? (ST31000340AS) 7200.11

FOUND HERE

SNo     Serial number         Result                                 Action

1           9QJxxxxG                 Drive is not affected.           No action required.

Is this reliable enough for me not to update? Does this mean SD15 firmwares are not the same?

--seagate fanboy 

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IMO, Seagate's Serial Checker is useless.

My formerly bricked SD15 1TB drive was "unaffected" according to that serial checker, then it (obviously unaware that it was "unaffected" ) bricked itself with all the classic symptoms, and then the firmware upgrade unbricked it (still obviously unaware that it was "unaffected" ). Unaffected? I don't think so!

If it's an affected drive model AND it has one of the affected firmware on it, then I suggest you do the upgrade.

[bioshock]

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bioshock wrote:

Serial number check utility says i need not update my firmware? (ST31000340AS) 7200.11

FOUND HERE

SNo     Serial number         Result                                 Action

1           9QJxxxxG                 Drive is not affected.           No action required.

Is this reliable enough for me not to update? Does this mean SD15 firmwares are not the same?

--seagate fanboy 

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IMO, Seagate's Serial Checker is useless.

My formerly bricked SD15 1TB drive was "unaffected" according to that serial checker, then it (obviously unaware that it was "unaffected" ) bricked itself with all the classic symptoms, and then the firmware upgrade unbricked it (still obviously unaware that it was "unaffected" ). Unaffected? I don't think so!

If it's an affected drive model AND it has one of the affected firmware on it, then I suggest you do the upgrade.

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Thanks alot for the reply =) I'll then move on to update my drives! Many thanks to you, hope i do it right =)

Message Edited by bioshock on 02-03-2009 01:15 AM

[bioshock]

Finally flashed one of my HD's (ST31000340AS) to SD1A with the downloadable firmware... Worked well on the flashing part.... Then i moved on to boot my PC... I'm using SV35.2 on my o.s drive, and the drive in question as a second drive... Drive is recognizable in bios, device manager and drive detect software with the SD1A firmware... But then i can not access the drive and doesnt show up under explorer... I've recognized under disk management that it doesnt have a drive letter assigned...So i move on to assign one but the message "the operation did not complete because the partition or volume is not enabled" ,"to enable the partition or volume reboot the computer".... Rebooted several times but still with the same error... How can i move on to resolve this? thanks -  did i just loose all my data on that drive =( -seagate fanboy

Message Edited by bioshock on 02-03-2009 08:29 PM

[bioshock]

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bioshock wrote:
Finally flashed one of my HD's (ST31000340AS) to SD1A with the downloadable firmware... Worked well on the flashing part.... Then i moved on to boot my PC... I'm using SV35.2 on my o.s drive, and the drive in question as a second drive... Drive is recognizable in bios, device manager and drive detect software with the SD1A firmware... But then i can not access the drive and doesnt show up under explorer... I've recognized under disk management that it doesnt have a drive letter assigned...So i move on to assign one but the message "the operation did not complete because the partition or volume is not enabled" ,"to enable the partition or volume reboot the computer".... Rebooted several times but still with the same error... How can i move on to resolve this? thanks -  did i just loose all my data on that drive =( -seagate fanboy

Message Edited by bioshock on 02-03-2009 08:29 PM

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After minutes of playing around with the problem, i decided to reload another HD 7200.10 , with my original win XP OS and turns out to be that the situation is OS related and not the HD (ST31000340AS).. All files are in tact so happy again =) 

[AlanM]

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