I have been experiencing the freezing problem on my ST31500341AS firmware SD17, but in Vista streaming movies from Windows Vista to my HTPC (also Vista) using windows file sharing. I tried the drive in two different Vista installations - one on an AMD platform, the other an Intel platform to try and prove it was not my motherboard or drivers to blame. When the drive freezes up, the HDD activity LED is lit solid and the computer continues to function as long as you don't try to access the drive.
I tried to disable write caching in Vista, but every time I'd clear the checkbox, it would be checked again next time I opened the dialog. When I disabled write caching and rebooted, I the system would hang during boot, and would not even boot to safemode (hung at crcdisk.dll or similar).
I then did a fresh install of Windows XP and found the problem did not exist. So it sounds to me like Linux, Mac OSX and Vista are three confirmed operating systems that show the problem.
When I applied for an RMA from Newegg, they want to charge me a 15% restocking fee. Did you guys have to pay that? I'm really down on Seagate since I bought this 1.5TB drive to hold the data from my 750GB seagate that just died. That 750GB had the infamouse AAK firmware that made it slow. At least they replaced it with the AAC firmware when I sent it in for warranty repair.
Message Edited by Squiggly on 10-25-2008 12:46 PM
Message Edited by Squiggly on 10-25-2008 12:49 PM
my response: I don't want Linux support, I want my hardware to work! btw. there is a news on Slashdot Hardware section about these drives. I wonder if there's someone using Linux on Slashdot?
