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Seagate Firmware Update Bricks 500GB Barracudas
Voidsinger writes "The latest firmware updates to correct Seagate woes have created a new debacle. It seems from Seagate forums that there has yet to be a successful update of the 3500320AS models from SD15 to the new SD1A firmware. Add to that the updater updates the firmware of all drives of the same type at once, and you get a meltdown of RAID arrays, and people's backups if they were on the same type of drive. Drives are still flashable though, and Seagate has pulled the update for validation. While it would have been nice of them to validate the firmware beforehand, there is still a little hope that not everyone will lose all of their data."
No golden plates and seer stones are the way to go.
Barracuda Flounders
There are no karma whores, only moderation johns
Over 48 hours now .... Starting to think I better not hold my breath
I agree, but good job for holding your breath for so long :P
Obviously, they are using their own product.
Yes, because they never get broken.
Here is a perfect example. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L940yIeVZzE
Life is not for the lazy.
Go here http://forums.seagate.com/stx/board?board.id=ata_drives to see the angry users and posts in Seagate's official forum. Most of us are pretty angry and upset. Definitely read this super long thread: http://forums.seagate.com/stx/board/message?board.id=ata_drives&message.id=6272 (42 pages).
I find it ironic that our HDDs are about to be bricked EITHER way (on its own) or with the pulled firmware updater (released twice already too; first one crashed with memory dumps and stuff for everyone; second one bricks 500 GB models).
FYI, http://support.seagate.com/firmware/MooseDT-32MB-SD1A.ISO was the ISO file that was released (404 error now due to brickings) according to my download history. Seagate needs to get the next one right!
Ant(Dude) @ Quality Foraged Links (AQFL.net) & The Ant Farm (antfarm.ma.cx / antfarm.home.dhs.org).
The FEAR of losing all that data that is!
Go Seagate! Rah-rah! WDC is behind you all the way but for the love of god, don't drop the soap!
is this seagategate?
Media that can be recorded and distributed can be recorded and distributed.
-kfg
If the problem was the uncertainty of your data's integrity due to a firmware bug, then your problem is solved.
Now you are sure.
Anybody who uses "brick" as a verb should be bricked - with a brick.
Brett
Which means they've proved its never too late to have a happy childhood.
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"Right now, the engineers are crapping themselves"
Shitting bricks no doubt. ;)
No golden plates and seer stones are the way to go.
Dumb, dumb dumb dumb, dumb dumb dumb.
The engineers may be shitting BRINKS.. but management is shitting MOOSE!
The magnetic field recorded in lava flows has lasted hundreds of millions of years.
That's it! Put a coil round an active volcano and write your long term data into the lava. No more lost backups now!
Consciousness is an illusion caused by an excess of self consciousness.
Our phones are flooded so bad that it locks the system up when there are too many calls in queue
You should look for a firmware update for your phones too!
I'm hearing that in Troy McClure's voice.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."