[ale] Seagate 500GB Sata-CRASH!

[Adam Allred]

Whoops.

It doesn't apply to ALL sizes of the 7200.11 series. They left out the 
drives with FreeAgent external enclosures, and the 250GB version...

Adam Allred wrote:
> IDK if it applies particularly to your hard drive, but the bricking 
> problem has gotten to be systemic enough to hit slashdot:
> 
> http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/01/17/0115207
> 
> In a nutshell: the firmware for the hard drive has a bug that "locks" 
> the drive. It's supposedly not a hardware failure, or a safety 
> issue...but a poorly built "feature".
> 
> Seagate's KB article says the problem applies to all 7200.11 models down 
> to 160GB manufactured up to the end of 2008.
> 
> They're even offering free data recovery. I certainly hope there's 
> nothing on the drive that prohibits it leaving your hands...
> 
> Hope this helps!
> 
> Adam
> 
> 
> 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.. 
>