Complaints flood Seagate over hard drive problems

[ronjor]

-{ Quote: "By Lucas Mearian

January 17, 2009 (Computerworld) Seagate Technologies' online support forum has been riddled this week with complaints from owners of the 1.5TB Barracuda 7200.11 hard drive, which in recent months has already drawn complaints that the drive has been freezing up during data transfers.

Users also have said that drives are failing, complaints that have not been limited to Seagate's online support site. They have also rained in on other forums. The complaints involve drives running Linux, Mac OS X and Windows Vista. " }-Article (http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9126280)

[ronjor]

Seagate releases new firmware for broken hard drives-{ Quote: "By Jeremy Kirk

January 22, 2009 (IDG News Service) Seagate Technology LLC has now released new firmware for all models of hard drives affected by a software flaw, the company said today.

Seagate has published detailed instructions for how administrators can identify the model of hard drive in service and whether it needs a firmware upgrade. Models affected are the Barracuda 7200.11, ES.2 SATA and DiamondMax 22. " }-Article (http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9126580)

[silver0066]

Has anyone applied the new Seagate firmware update successfully? Several publications state that it can trash your drive.

Many thanks,

Silver

[renegade08]

-{ Quote: "Has anyone applied the new Seagate firmware update successfully? Several publications state that it can trash your drive.

Many thanks,

Silver" }-


Although i don't use Seagate HDD, i know something about firmawares.

Firmware can be applied to MP4 players, internet modems( Access points) and e.t.c

Yes, firmware can make your device (whatever that be) to go dead.

So playing with firmware is not advisable.

But in this case, firmware upgrade is recommended from company itself.