Seagate 7200.11 Es.2, Maxtor Diamond 22, Firmware issue to update Options

[lepetitmartien]

People with 7200.11 hard drives from Seagate should be aware there's a current issue. The disks get locked into protection mode and then are "dead". There should be a firmware update to care of this issue before it appears.

The faulty firmware is SD15. Until a fix is released, avoid powering up and down the drive, back up elsewhere.

This thread centralize all the data about the working/non working drives.

The related forum at Seagate

A press realease from seagate is expected today.

Gosh, I've got at least two three of them…

Ce message a été modifié par lepetitmartien - jeu. 12 févr. 2009, 03:50.

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[lepetitmartien]

Right now, this is how it is:

- there's no working patches still, seagate trials were as bad if not worse than the original firmwares.
- remember, the drives are "ok", the data is still here, it's only a software issue so it'll be fixed.
- all 7200.11 and equivalents build until december 08 included are concerned
- there's a way to unbrick the bricked ones rather geeky but for this, I advise to follow the threads on msfn.org (the forum seems down, it'll come back)

Until there's a WORKING firmware… Don't power down the drive if you can and back up!