[ale] Seagate 500GB Sata-CRASH!

[Greg Freemyer]

I had lots of seagate drives fail over the summer.  None since then.

When was yours manufactured?  (Should be a date code on the drive. and
one of our people has a tool to convert from date code to real date.

Greg

On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 1:05 PM, Paul Cartwright <ale at pcartwright.com> 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..
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> Paul Cartwright
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