On Monday 11 May 2009, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote: >"D. Hugh Redelmeier" <hugh@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: >> "Wolfgang S. Rupprecht" <wolfgang.rupprecht+gnus200904@xxxxxxxxx>: >> >After running flawlessly for 6+ months I just had my Seagate >> >ST31500343AS (w. SD35 firmware) flake out. >> >> And so it goes. I infer that this cycle goes on until the power is >> turned off. > >Yes, the system gets progressively wonkier until it is rebooted. At >some point the drive just locks up hard and linux is dead in the water. > >The funny part is that I can't find anything on Seagate's site admitting >to a problem with the version of the drive that I have. There was some >other guy with the same model and same firmware that also noticed the >drive locking up once in a while. Mine does it within 6 hours of me >streaming data to the drive. Seems that the data direction is very >important. It needs to be a write of several 1GB files for my system to >lock up. > >At this point, I'd be happy to just turn off whatever feature is >triggering the drives firmware bug. I'd turn off NCQ from the linux end >if there were any documentation on how to do it. > >-wolfgang >-- >Wolfgang S. Rupprecht http://www.full-steam.org/ (ipv6-only) > You may need to config 6to4 to see the above pages. Seagate has a downloadable cd image that when burnt and run as a boot disk will survey the system and update any of their disks that need it. No data loss was encountered when I did one of mine. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) The face of war has never changed. Surely it is more logical to heal than to kill. -- Surak of Vulcan, "The Savage Curtain", stardate 5906.5 -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
