hi..
just had my 1TB seagate fail on boot up... seagate say it's is not affected by the 0LBA issue.. and thus won't waranty the data... but if i put drive in another machine and use linux and run
Code:
smartctl -a /dev/sda
smartctl version 5.36 [i686-pc-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-6 Bruce Allen
Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/
Device: ATA ST31000333AS Version: CC3H
Serial number: 9TE1FQAA
Device type: disk
Local Time is: Mon Feb 22 20:29:19 2010 UTC
Device does not support SMART
Error Counter Logging not supported
so drive is there...
and
Code:
hdpram -i /dev/sda
/dev/sda:
Model=ST31000333AS , FwRev=CC3H , SerialNo= 9TE1FQAA
Config={ HardSect NotMFM HdSw>15uSec Fixed DTR>10Mbs RotSpdTol>.5% }
RawCHS=16383/16/63, TrkSize=0, SectSize=0, ECCbytes=4
BuffType=unknown, BuffSize=0kB, MaxMultSect=16, MultSect=?16?
CurCHS=16383/16/63, CurSects=16514064, LBA=yes, LBAsects=0
IORDY=on/off, tPIO={min:120,w/IORDY:120}, tDMA={min:120,rec:120}
PIO modes: pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4
DMA modes: mdma0 mdma1 *mdma2
UDMA modes: udma0 udma1 udma2 udma3 udma4 udma5 udma6
AdvancedPM=no WriteCache=enabled
Drive conforms to: unknown: ATA/ATAPI-4,5,6,7
* signifies the current active mode
but whats this...
LBAsects=0 surly that means 0LBA..
so will this fix work on this drive...
many thanks