[mythtv-users] Seagate confirms problems with 1.5TB Barracuda drives

Martin Bene martin.bene at icomedias.com
Sat Nov 22 21:49:58 UTC 2008


>> The typical Seagate 1.5TB error looks like this:
>>
>> ata2.00: cmd ea/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 tag 0 cdb 0x0 data 0
>>          res 40/00:00:00:4f:c2/00:00:00:00:00/40 Emask 0x4 (timeout)
> That matches the error I got, after that error and the
> associated reset I also
> get this error about the sector that it had trouble with
> before it reset the
> drive:

An Update from seagate is now available; new firmware version is SD1A. There'sno public link for the new fiormware, the only way to get it is contaction seagate technical support.

The update is just for the 1.5TB Drive with Firmware SD15 - SD19.

Update worked OK for my drive, the errors are gone regardless of writecache setting. No negative side effects so far.

Bye, Martin


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