On 1/21/2009 at 1:58 AM, "Greg Freemyer"
wrote:
We have about 40 that match the model numbers in question. I haven't seen a list of firmware revs yet that are affected.
FYI: We have had a lot of drive failures, so I'm sure we have bad drives. I just don't know which ones.
From the Seagate KB: Affected drives are from the series Barracuda 7200.11 DiamondMax 22 Barracuda ES.2 SATA
Apparently Seagate is not having all the information to identify themself if the disk is affected by the problem, and they actually recommend against flashing the disks firmware 'to prevent' anything. The suggestion goes clearly in the way of 'crash and flash'. The fact that there seems not to exist a (public) table of affected bios revisions (yet) would also make it close to impossible to create a tool that can identify if your disk is at risk. Just because you have the correct model can't be an indication, as the user might already have the newest bios applied. Dominique -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org