ATTN : Barracuda 7200.11, Barracuda ES.2 SATA & DiamondMax 22 Owners - Page 9

Predator · 30th July 2009, 11:10 AM

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Originally Posted by Rezin

For the price you'd get from eBay (what, ~$70?), is it worth the risk of potentially having someone trying to restore that data?

Agree with you there.

Most of them are $15, and the fix usually works like a charm. Has for me, on two separate drives.

Richard_Sheath · 30th July 2009, 9:15 PM

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Originally Posted by Rezin

For the price you'd get from eBay (what, ~$70?), is it worth the risk of potentially having someone trying to restore that data?

Agree,

I suppose that's just as bad a risk as returning it to seagate direct and not getting the original back... I'll probably bin it to be honest, don't want the guilt of offloading a timebomb onto someone else.

AbRASiON · 8th August 2009, 8:59 PM

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Originally Posted by AbRASiON

2 of my 4 purchased disks are now dead, manufacture date 2009, firmware 'apparently fine' according to seagate...........

Make that 3 of 4.
Seagate currently suck, any opinion otherwise is simply denial.
WD, thank god you exist.

SLATYE · 8th August 2009, 9:09 PM

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Originally Posted by AbRASiON

Make that 3 of 4.
Seagate currently suck, any opinion otherwise is simply denial.

Your logic is flawed. It would be correct to say that the particular batch of Seagate drives that you bought was faulty. This does not mean that all Seagate drives manufactured around the same time were faulty, and it certainly doesn't mean that all the Seagate drives currently available are faulty.

AbRASiON · 8th August 2009, 9:47 PM

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Originally Posted by SLATYE

Your logic is flawed. It would be correct to say that the particular batch of Seagate drives that you bought was faulty. This does not mean that all Seagate drives manufactured around the same time were faulty, and it certainly doesn't mean that all the Seagate drives currently available are faulty.

Don't even try, don't even bother, it's simply not worth you even beginning this argument.
They are a known problem known and it's not just the firmware, there's hundreds of cases of the clicking problem out there, there's over 80 pages of responses on Seagates forums.
The 7200.11 is a lemon - period.

cgd · 15th August 2009, 11:06 AM

Has anyone in Melbourne done the RS232 to TTL trick on there HDD? Just got a few questions. My drive is showing up in Bios but its the LBA 0 error. Data is not critical but would be nice not to have to get it again.

Chris

Predator · 15th August 2009, 11:25 AM

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Originally Posted by cgd

Has anyone in Melbourne done the RS232 to TTL trick on there HDD? Just got a few questions. My drive is showing up in Bios but its the LBA 0 error. Data is not critical but would be nice not to have to get it again.

Chris

Same solution, but you don't have to do the remove the circut board bit. Just hook it up and follow the terminal commands. With luck you'll have all your data back in 5 mins.

AbRASiON · 15th August 2009, 1:01 PM

Just get them fixed by Seagate and sell the damn things, don't hold on to them, they are rubbish.

DJel · 16th August 2009, 7:30 PM

A friend of mine had a drive on the list with SD15 firmware. I updated the drive to SD1A as per Seagate's instructions and I was wondering if the drive is trustworthy with data after the update or should he get a new one?

Predator · 16th August 2009, 9:24 PM

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Originally Posted by DJel

A friend of mine had a drive on the list with SD15 firmware. I updated the drive to SD1A as per Seagate's instructions and I was wondering if the drive is trustworthy with data after the update or should he get a new one?

To be honest, it was just as trustworthy with data with SD15. Neither bug (0LBA or BSY) actually damages data. I have two drives, one of each bug, that stand testament to that.

Of course if the drive is clicking, then your friends data is in a world of trouble.

dcl · 26th October 2009, 10:46 AM

Are the 7200.12's known to be better?

anark1 · 23rd December 2009, 1:32 PM

just had my ST3500320AS with firmware sd15 fall over after a few years of use, could this be put down to general failure or quite possibly be a firmware issue in the drive itself ?

cgd · 23rd December 2009, 1:35 PM

Is it detecting in the Bios? If it is does the capacity say 0Gb?

anark1 · 23rd December 2009, 1:36 PM

nah the drive randomly drops out and corrupts data thus only allowing my to have it a slave to copy the data to my new WD disk.

cgd · 23rd December 2009, 1:38 PM

sounds very similar to the way mine was going just before it stopped. Hope you get a back up of all your data.

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23rd December 2009, 1:36 PM	#134
anark1 Member Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: melbourne Posts: 1,323	nah the drive randomly drops out and corrupts data thus only allowing my to have it a slave to copy the data to my new WD disk. __________________ Asus P5Q Deluxe~Q9650 ~true black 2x120mm's~4gb ddr2 Dominators 1066mhz~Pioneer 215-Asus 560ti top 1GB~1TB WD Blackx2~2tb WD Green~ocz Vertex 3 120gb~DVDRW DL~27"screen~N-Wi-Fi~DAS KB~G7~Corsair Hx620W psu~lianlipc9

15th August 2009, 11:06 AM	#126
cgd Member Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Melbournetown Posts: 49	Has anyone in Melbourne done the RS232 to TTL trick on there HDD? Just got a few questions. My drive is showing up in Bios but its the LBA 0 error. Data is not critical but would be nice not to have to get it again. Chris

15th August 2009, 1:01 PM	#128
AbRASiON Member Join Date: Dec 2002 Posts: 693	Just get them fixed by Seagate and sell the damn things, don't hold on to them, they are rubbish.

16th August 2009, 7:30 PM	#129
DJel Member Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Sydney Posts: 275	A friend of mine had a drive on the list with SD15 firmware. I updated the drive to SD1A as per Seagate's instructions and I was wondering if the drive is trustworthy with data after the update or should he get a new one?

26th October 2009, 10:46 AM	#131
dcl Member Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: melbourne Posts: 4,237	Are the 7200.12's known to be better?

23rd December 2009, 1:35 PM	#133
cgd Member Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Melbournetown Posts: 49	Is it detecting in the Bios? If it is does the capacity say 0Gb?

23rd December 2009, 1:38 PM	#135
cgd Member Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Melbournetown Posts: 49	sounds very similar to the way mine was going just before it stopped. Hope you get a back up of all your data.