[ale] Seagate 500GB Sata-CRASH!

[Jay Finch]

I read this article the other day about Seagate Barracuda drives having
some serious issues and failing en masse recently:
http://www.electronista.com/articles/09/01/13/seagate.barracuda.failures/


Cheers!
Jay


On Fri, January 16, 2009 1:09 pm, Ken Ratliff wrote:
> Well the first thing I'd suggest is dropping it in another box to see
> if that box will see it. Assuming no, it's probably time to get an RMA
> number from Seagate if their own utils don't won't see it.
>
> On Jan 16, 2009, at 1:05 PM, Paul Cartwright wrote:
>
>> well, I was playing around with a 64 bit kernel, and decided to
>> reboot. on
>> rebooting the CPU case was buzzing, I thought the cover was loose.
>> When it
>> came back up it was giving me fsck errors on the mountable
>> partitions on the
>> 2nd drive ( the NEW Seagate ).. oops, so I rebooted into 32bit mode,
>> yeah,
>> well, no difference. So I booted into XP partition to install the
>> latest
>> Bios, I'd been putting off doing that til my next reboot.. So I
>> installed the
>> new BIOS, rebooted, nada. It took forever to reboot, I thought it
>> was just
>> hanging at the Intel Matrix Storage manager section, but after a
>> minute or
>> more it finally booted, but gave errors on all the /dev/sdbX
>> partitions.
>> I downloaded the Seagate drive utilities, and ran them, but it
>> doesn't see a
>> drive attached to the bus ;(
>> and I just GOT that drive when Circuit City went under !!!
>> Seagate Barracuda st3500320A6 500Gb SATA drive.
>>
>> any suggestions?? so much for my backup scheme.. hm, I better turn
>> off the
>> rsync, come to think of it..
>> --
>> Paul Cartwright
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