[fw] Seagate 7200.11 hard disk firmware upgrade

[Man-wai Chang ToDie (33.6k)]

Are you affected?

Welcome, Seagate hard drive owners. A number of Seagate hard drives
from the following families may become inaccessible when the host system
is powered on:

Barracuda 7200.11
DiamondMax 22
Barracuda ES.2 SATA

Once a drive has become affected the data becomes inaccessible to users
but the data is not deleted. Seagate has isolated this issue to a
firmware bug affecting drives from these families manufactured through
December 2008.

http://seagate.custkb.com/seagate/c...tLanguage=selfservice&DocId=207931&NewLang=en

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[Andreas Eibach]

Are you affected?

Welcome, Seagate hard drive owners. A number of Seagate hard drives
from the following families may become inaccessible when the host system
is powered on:

Barracuda 7200.11
DiamondMax 22
Barracuda ES.2 SATA

Good Mooooorning.
Thanks for the breaking news.

-Andreas

 

[Franc Zabkar]

Are you affected?

Welcome, Seagate hard drive owners. A number of Seagate hard drives
from the following families may become inaccessible when the host system
is powered on:

Barracuda 7200.11
DiamondMax 22
Barracuda ES.2 SATA

Once a drive has become affected the data becomes inaccessible to users
but the data is not deleted. Seagate has isolated this issue to a
firmware bug affecting drives from these families manufactured through
December 2008.

http://seagate.custkb.com/seagate/c...tLanguage=selfservice&DocId=207931&NewLang=en

New SD1A firmware has just been released:
http://seagate.custkb.com/seagate/crm/selfservice/search.jsp?DocId=207931

It appears that there are different versions of the SD1A version of
the firmware. <shrug>

ST31000340AS
http://support.seagate.com/firmware/MooseDT-SD1A-3D4D-16-32MB.ISO

ST3750330AS
http://support.seagate.com/firmware/MooseDT-SD1A-3D4D-16-32MB.ISO

ST3640330AS
Please contact support ...

ST3500320AS
http://support.seagate.com/firmware/MooseDT-SD1A-2D-8-16-32MB.ISO

- Franc Zabkar

 

[Franc Zabkar]

New SD1A firmware has just been released:
http://seagate.custkb.com/seagate/crm/selfservice/search.jsp?DocId=207931

It appears that there are different versions of the SD1A version of
the firmware. <shrug>

ST31000340AS
http://support.seagate.com/firmware/MooseDT-SD1A-3D4D-16-32MB.ISO

ST3750330AS
http://support.seagate.com/firmware/MooseDT-SD1A-3D4D-16-32MB.ISO

ST3640330AS
Please contact support ...

ST3500320AS
http://support.seagate.com/firmware/MooseDT-SD1A-2D-8-16-32MB.ISO

I noticed in one forum post that someone referred to the different
firmware versions as applying to drives with 2 discs
(MooseDT-SD1A-2D-8-16-32MB.ISO) and 3 & 4 discs
(MooseDT-SD1A-3D4D-16-32MB.ISO).

Maybe the "y" in the "ST3_capacity_xy0AS" model number refers to the
number of platters and maybe this explains why the SD1A update bricked
the 500GB drives but not the 1TB and 1.5TB???

The "x" in the model number appears to reflect the cache size.

3 = 32MB (ST31500341AS, ST31000333AS and ST3640323AS)
6 = 16MB (ST3640623AS and ST3320613AS)
8 = 8MB (ST3320813AS and ST3160813AS)

I suspect that the ST3640330AS also has 3 platters, but that it has a
reduced data density.

The following page attempts to explain the model numbering systems for
several drive manufacturers, but the above data are missing:
http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=921544

Can anyone guess as to the meaning of the last digit in the model
number?

- Franc Zabkar

 

[calypso]

The following page attempts to explain the model numbering systems for
several drive manufacturers, but the above data are missing:
http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=921544

Here is for the Hitachi SATA drives:

http://www.hitachigst.com/tech/tech...62C0386256F4E006B2F86/$file/7K500ud_final.pdf

And here is for Hitachi SCSI/SAS/FC drives:

http://www.hitachigst.com/tech/tech...9862574250063DE77/$file/US15K450_DS_final.pdf

Hope this helps a bit...

Don't know nothing about Seagate...

Can anyone guess as to the meaning of the last digit in the model
number?

Well, I could take a look, but no promises...


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