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Seagate Firmware Update Bricks 500GB Barracudas

Posted by kdawson on from the three-steps-back dept.

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."

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  1. Re:If You Can Reflash It, It's Not Bricked by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    CAN YOU FUCKING FAGGOTS __NOT__ USE THE WORD BRICK IN EVERY SINGLE FUCKING ARTICLE?? thanks.

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