Seagate Observations 7200.11

[drc]

I can help if you care to send it in, and am apparently fairly local to you.

[mhthomas]

My drive is very new. I checked serial on seagate website and it is effected by problem. So I put my drive through testing with spinrite and it was failing, due to hang.

But, today I found new firmware and updated my drive and it is now working.

I do not need the firmware any more. Thank you!

[rameez]

Why did you use Spinrite ?

[mhthomas]

The Seagate drive was failing using someone's spinrite. Unscientifically, by changing two things, I flashed my drive's firmware because Seagate said it was *affected* and I used my own spinrite and the drive is now working 100%. Conclusions = none.

Note: I use spinrite because I want to see seek error and ECC correction rates in SMART during its level 5 testing. I ultimately put my Seagate 1TB and WD Cariar Black 1TB on a SATA mobo, and I'm using both drives (software R1) for storage backup.

I'm a noob but I found a couple uses for spinrite over a couple months time:

- Tracking seek error and ECC correction rates in SMART during tests.

- Timing level 5 tests gives me idea of speed and *quality* of drive. If there are *weak* areas on the disk, spinrite spends more time during tests in that area. These tests are also useful comparing drives with same hardware specs.

- I recovered one 500GB drive that SMART said was failed, but spinrite recovered. This drive is still working as spinrite apparently moved data off the *weak* areas? But, I have had other drives that spinrite could not help, because of too many errors or really bad areas that take "forever" to test. One drive had so many errors spinrite spent two days and did not get past 1%.

- I run the software on all my SCSI 36G drives before placing in the SAN to verify *quality* or failure before I put them in my second hand SAN.

There may be other, better tools, or other uses beyond mine, but this is my experience.

[drc]

This drive is still working as spinrite apparently moved data off the *weak* areas? But, I have had other drives that spinrite could not help, because of too many errors or really bad areas that take "forever" to test.

Spinrite can't actually do that. It can bang on the drive so much that the drive itself decides to remap the sectors, but that's an internal mechanism to the drive. It would happen if you were using anything that read and wrote to the disk repeatedly.

[ephraim2]

HELLO mhthomas

I HAVE ALSO ST31000333AS FIRMWARE SD35.

CAN U BE SO KIND AND SEND THE NEW FIRMWARE.

TKS IN ADVANCE
EPHRAIM

[ephraim2]

HELLO FOLKS

I BELIEVE I HAVE THE NEW FIRMWARE FROM SEAGTE BUT, IT SEEMES THAT MY DRIVE IS LOCKED. IS ANYBODY THERE WHO MIGHT HELP WITH THIS NEW ISSUE.


TKS SO MUCH
EPHRAIM

[ephraim2]

HELLO Spildit

TKS FOR YOUR REPLY AGAIN.

I AM NOT SURE CUSTOMER WILL ALLOW TO SEND DRIVE TO U. I'LL ASK HIM.

HOW MUCH IT SHOULD COST.

ARE U SURE NOTHING CAN BE DONE FROM HERE?

TKS FOR YOUR ATTENTION.

BRGDS
EPHRAIM

[tgrans21]

I have an ST31000333AS drive with F/w Rev SD35, would anybody be willing to send me the brinks-3d6h-sd3b.iso firmware upgrade or a link to a download site? Thanks in advance.

Ted

[falther]

You know Google ?

I typed in following: Seagate fw update

2nd entry from top:

http://seagate.custkb.com/seagate/crm/s ... cId=207931

It led to the german website of Seagate, if you would surch in Google, you might
find it in a different language.

Be aware, that a firmware update should only be done on a working drive with
an affected serial number.

- Do not manipulate with the drive, if it shows allready the typical errors.
- For a still working drive: Clone the complete drive or copy valuable data
. BEFORE you start a firmware update.


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