I have been searching in vain (it seems) for a solution from my favorite HD manufacturer: Seagate.
My 1TB drive (as mentioned in the title) most certainly IS affected by the same problem or a variant of it.
When I power on sometimes, the POST screen shows no HDs connected on the controller.
Other times, when in XP working an a program, the systems will quickly reboot with no warning, no lag, no hangs, nothing. Just powers down and reboots and when it scans for drives, you guessed it: there are none to be found.
1) I have a support case open since 1/27 with no activity or notes.
2) I have downloaded the Brinks-3D6H-SD1B.ISO and burned to a CDr to try the firmware update, but it says found ST31000333AS, expected ST31000333AS. HUH?!?
I am told that CC1F is not affected, and that stupid serial number confirmation page with its rediculous inane verification (of old texts???) never accepts the codes I enter, even though they are separated by a space and case-duplicates of the originals.
Obviously, my drive is not supposed to reboot my system by itself and disappear from the BIOS detection.
I have been a supporter of Seagate since the early nineties, when my WD drives kept losing data and forming bad sectors. This is the first problem I have ever had with them. EVER.
I don't want to rake anyone over any coals, but there isn't much communication on the issues, and it seems as though they don't want to say anything for liability sake.
In the meantime, my whole collection of data is being backed up daily to avoid loss, but one of these times it will reboot in the middle of a backup and I will be finished.
Does anyone have anything to lend to this? Am I doing something wrong with the firmware? Do I need to be in AHCI mode instead of N-IDE?
