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Guru3D.com » News » Seagate engineer explains Barracuda firmware issues

Seagate engineer explains Barracuda firmware issues

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 01/27/2009 10:34 AM | source: | 0 comment(s)

A Seagate engineer has given an explanation for the firmware debacle from last week. Here's a snip:

The problem with the 7200.11 series bricking, which has been in the news for the last month, was what really got the ball rolling. The Seagate employee says that is an old problem that was difficult to diagnose. A log or journal is written to in the firmware when certain events occur. If this reaches 320 entries and the drive is powered down, it will produce errors during initialization and not report information to the BIOS. Engineers quickly began work on a new firmware update to prevent this from happening.

Normally, a customer would go through the usual process of contacting customer support for the new preventative update and





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