Gradius2

CC1J seems fine, not sure about CC1H.

Looks like HD Tune isn't compatible with those "new" drives for benchmark yet, so is unreliable. I used HD Tach v3.0.4.0 and now I got this: 1k GB: 247.2MB/sec (Average read: 99.6MB/sec) 750GB: 244.4MB/sec (Average read: 91.1MB/sec) 300GB: 130.2MB/sec (Average read: 51.5MB/sec) However, what worries me is the access time begin too high, on 1TB (fw CC1F) they're always above 15ms. While all the rest (non 1TB), are always 12.5ms (max) !

Sigh!, they didn't put a CC1H or better for those with CC1F and lower. Goodbye Seagate, forever!

Did you tried this: F3 T>/2 and F3 2>U (power on) ? F3 2>Z (does power off on Spin motor). If no good then a RMA is better.

Btw, here is where they make 2.5" HDDs (over a million per week): He just forgot to show this at the end:

The new firmware has been pulled AGAIN! Actually no, at least MooseDT-SD1A-3D4D-16-32MB.ISO are the very same (I compared). Gradius

Well, if the company is officially in your country, then you can, otherwise, it will be hard. It would be necessary to move a massive international action to win faster. But the best alternative until now (if you recovered your datas) is just not buying any Seagate product anymore. Btw, HDDs will start to die around 2015, when SSD will becomes cheap, bigger and good enough. Every HDD is risky (and slow) to use due the mechanical parts. The only advantage about HDDs is to have 10TB around ~2013, I have no idea how big SSDs will be at that time (but if they want to compete, it needs to be 2TB~4TB at least).

Backup, only then, upgrade. The safer the better!

Checking an old Maxtor (300GB), I got: - Burst rate: 114.3MB/sec (the drive is from 26/08/2004 !) While a new Seagate (750GB) with SD1A I'm getting just 89.9MB/sec. o.O I'm very disappointed. Edit: A Seagate 300GB (also like 5yo) managed to get 96.9MB/sec ! A new 1TB (Seagate) with CC1F got just 98.8MB/sec. The evidence:

So far they censored (removed) two of my messages there. This is still at works: Classic version:

Sorry but it will not. Every PCB is married with HDA, they're unique. Flashing will never works if your HD isn't recognized by BIOS at POST time. You need to unlock the drive with RS232 to TTL solution, or spend $500, or just RMA. There is no other solution.

Seagate is cutting 2950 jobs and executives salaries down to 25% too. They could just offer a "special bonus" to those who really knows (a firmware is always writing in assembly) to fix the HDD stuff. This is why they could fixed once for all so fast. The only difference is .LOD files are cryptographed, since they have HDDs on consoles like Xbox 360, if they just didn't do that, it would be very easy to defect 360's HDDs protections to accept ANY HDD, and ANY size. Plus, it could run games from HDD without any problem. However they still needs to release more firmwares, specially for those: ST31500341AS ST31000333AS ST3640323AS ST3640623AS ST3320613AS ST3320813AS ST3160813AS http://seagate.custkb.com/seagate/crm/self...sp?DocId=207957 They says CC or LC firmwares aren't affected, but this is untrue, I already saw more than 10 complains with CC's firmwares, and 1 with LC.

@SpooX You should never disconnect the drive after m0,2,2,,,,,22 cmd is given, even if takes 5min. How long it took to you? That RST 0x20M error sounds like a problem with the "motor trick", check my paper card I used here: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showto...st&p=829013

That depends a lot on drive, the smaller and more partitions on HDD (500GB or less), the slower it is. But 2~3 minutes for those drives is normal. My 750GB took around 70secs. It won't depends on computer at all. It writes on service sector (isn't for user datas). You're safe to test, if you see not all partitions are there, stop using and report here. I see, your problem was really totally different from the others. Keep in mind RAID 0 is the most risky and excelent to loss all your datas, IF just one drive goes down (crash, etc), you might lost everything, no matter if the other drives are working 100% fine.

First impressions for firmware SD1A: - Better reading speed (more stable) - Better writing speed (more stable) - Burst rate went from 82.4MB/sec to 89.9MB/sec (much better) - Access time from 12.4ms to 12.3ms now (no changes) No problems so far. Tested on 4 (four) ST3750330AS [750GB] (originally: SD15, now using SD1A). Currently testing defrag with diskeeper, it is running for over 6h now (@ 66% atm), so far so good, the drive is 44% full.

SD1A has been released, 1st impression: - Better reading speed (more stable) - Better writing speed (more stable) - Burst rate went from 82.4MB/sec to 89.9MB/sec (much better) - Access time from 12.4ms to 12.3ms now (no changes) No problems so far. Tested on 4 (four) ST3750330AS [750GB] (originally: SD15, now with SD1A).

Before, with SD15 firmware: After with SD1A: S.M.A.R.T.: Random Read tests: Write test:

They still needs to release for those: http://seagate.custkb.com/seagate/crm/self...sp?DocId=207957 I don't trust on CC1F at all.

About firmware, I'll just post here. They finally released a different (fixed?) firmware today for those drives: STD Firmware Updates Barracuda 7200.11 SD1A 3 and 4 Disc Models (750GB and 1000GB) Distribution tabs ST3750330AS 9BX156 ST3750630AS 9BX146 ST31000340AS 9BX158 Generic Disty/STD-OEM, 16MB and 32MB, SATA Configurations, Moose SHA1 comparing NEW with old firmware: c:Seagate>sha1sum SD1A3D4D.LOD SD1AMOOS.LOD b07e3a9ccf49185bc681f858c6ce568b45dd0ae5 SD1A3D4D.LOD (new) 268c6931e85936cfac3871c5baaee0c327186233 SD1AMOOS.LOD (old) This is what flash.bat does: fdl462b -m Moose -f SD1A3D4D.LOD -i ST3750330AS -s -x -b -v -a 20 fdl462b -m Moose -f SD1A3D4D.LOD -i ST3750630AS -s -x -b -v -a 20 fdl462b -m Moose -f SD1A3D4D.LOD -i ST31000340AS -s -x -b -v -a 20 I flashed all my 4x750GB, however 3 of them were with SD1AMOOS.LOD already installed, and I still don't know if it really re-flashed with new one. How to boot Seagate firmware from a pendrive. You'll just need a bootable pendrive (of course), with MS-DOS 6.22, or similar DOS. How to extract Seagate ISO: Open ISO with 7zip, extract the Bootable_1.44M.img file inside [bOOT] folder (inside the ISO). Then open Bootable_1.44M.img file with Power ISO, or Magic ISO, or Ultra ISO, similar, and extract SD1A3D4D.ZIP file inside. You only need to copy those files (unziped) to your bootable pendrive, and you're done to boot with pendrive. At prompt just type flash (flash.bat) and it will do the rest.

You CAN boot and flash this from a pendrive, you'll just need a bootable pendrive (of course), with MS-DOS 6.22, or similar DOS. How to extract Seagate ISO: Open ISO with 7zip, extract the Bootable_1.44M.img file inside [bOOT] folder (inside the ISO). Then open Bootable_1.44M.img file with Power ISO, or Magic ISO, or Ultra ISO, similar, and extract SD1A3D4D.ZIP file inside. You only need to copy those files (unziped) to your bootable pendrive, and you're done to boot with pendrive. At prompt just type flash (flash.bat) and it will do the rest.

Okay, they finally released a different (fixed?) firmware today for those drives: STD Firmware Updates Barracuda 7200.11 SD1A 3 and 4 Disc Models (750GB and 1000GB) Distribution tabs ST3750330AS 9BX156 ST3750630AS 9BX146 ST31000340AS 9BX158 Generic Disty/STD-OEM, 16MB and 32MB, SATA Configurations, Moose SHA1 comparing NEW with old firmware: c:Seagate>sha1sum SD1A3D4D.LOD SD1AMOOS.LOD b07e3a9ccf49185bc681f858c6ce568b45dd0ae5 SD1A3D4D.LOD (new) 268c6931e85936cfac3871c5baaee0c327186233 SD1AMOOS.LOD (old) I guess I'll be forced to open another topic to talk about firmware only. Edit: currently there is a problem with board, I'll wait until they fix that, meanwhile I'll make some tests, etc. If you can wait couple hours, just wait! Every RS232 to TTL will works, also USB to RS232 to TTL, also will works. To a complete list of materials, please check the 1st msg on this topic (I included everything there, links and even prices).

Lets see if those guys release an update today (22th) !

Yeah, I saw that too. I payed the same price for my Q9450 (2.66GHz), and I could get a Q9650 (3GHz) instead! However that is today, I got my Q9450 six months ago.

Keep in mind all the commands are case-sensitive. Plus, double check the speed, it MUST be 38400 8 N 1 I see you managed to get an answer from terminal though.

This is why I included a complete kit (wire jumpers + headers) there. They sure can vary from HDD to HDD, but the principle is just the same and won't change.