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."

Comments

Re:I have a solution for long term data storage.

[Gerzel]

No golden plates and seer stones are the way to go.

Re:customer support offline too ?

[Anonymous Coward]

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

Re:As the owner of 4 of the 1 TB drives...

[Banichi]

Obviously, they are using their own product.

scandal nomenclature

[adavies42]

is this seagategate?

Re:Huh....

[keeboo]

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.

Re:Meta-suggestion for eds

[Brett Buck]

Anybody who uses "brick" as a verb should be bricked - with a brick.

          Brett

Re:THE FACTS

[sa1lnr]

"Right now, the engineers are crapping themselves"

Shitting bricks no doubt. ;)

Re:THE FACTS

[maxtorman]

The engineers may be shitting BRINKS.. but management is shitting MOOSE!

Re:If You Can Reflash It, It's Not Bricked

[Hognoxious]

Bricks can be useful too. E.g. you could build a house or defend yourself from The Man in a riot or revolution.

I'm hearing that in Troy McClure's voice.