Gradius2 Posted January 20, 2009 Posted January 20, 2009 (edited) This is the NEW philosophy begin applied at Seagate:You might laugh, but is trully real life there ! Edited January 20, 2009 by Gradius2
Gradius2 Posted January 20, 2009 Posted January 20, 2009 Where is the new SD1A update?Damnit, removed files at Seagate KB. I have a brand new SD15 1Tb disk here and want to upgrade but I got a memory exception with old SD1A update.I have the yesterday one at home. I can share it whenever i get home.Is there a new one ?New one is dated from today, 20th.A data de hoje (dia 20) é o "novo", mas eles removeram, portanto... é arriscado.
Gradius2 Posted January 20, 2009 Posted January 20, 2009 This is the "new" one.I'm not responsible for any damage it can happen.New Firmware
Gradius2 Posted January 20, 2009 Posted January 20, 2009 Seagate's stock were almost $30/share back in 10/13/2003.Today, is as low as $4.11/share !! The HDD problems started around July 2008, look this incredible conscience!It started to drop in 6/2/2008 from $22.27:http://moneycentral.msn.com/investor/chart...p;CP=0&PT=7Meanwhile at Seagate:
Hazor Posted January 20, 2009 Posted January 20, 2009 It's also worth noting that drastic declines are the norm all over right now, with the present economic situation, it's not just Seagate. (Although I would bet on this whole 7200.11 mess being part of the cause for them)
robintay Posted January 20, 2009 Posted January 20, 2009 This is the "new" one.I'm not responsible for any damage it can happen.New FirmwareSo this one will work on a bricked ST31000340AS SD15? Sorry for asking such a noob question.
ViniciusFerrao Posted January 20, 2009 Posted January 20, 2009 This is the "new" one.I'm not responsible for any damage it can happen.New FirmwareSo this one will work on a bricked ST31000340AS SD15? Sorry for asking such a noob question.Since you cannot see the drive you cannot update it.
icefloe01 Posted January 20, 2009 Posted January 20, 2009 (edited) Updated to SD1A last night after they silently fixed the first ISO with the incorrect flash program. So today my drives are (potentially) safe!! Happy birthday to me!! WOO HOO!! Actually, they removed the firmware from site again.Gradius Well crapola (since I can't "say" the other...). Since it worked for me, do you think all will be okay, or should I re-flash when ver.3 is released? Edited January 20, 2009 by icefloe01
caba212 Posted January 20, 2009 Posted January 20, 2009 okay if the update is only for recognized hard drives, what do the ppl whose drives arent recognized do?
qdr Posted January 20, 2009 Posted January 20, 2009 (edited) Alright, so here's what I have:Bougth myself a nice present - 500 GB 7200.11 s***gate. Was really happy, 'coz been downloading stuff from local torrents 24 hours a day. immediately attached an HDD cooler to it. So, everything's fine, until one day winxp just showed me the "$mft something is screwed". After that my harddrive was shuting itself down at random time and random occasion. Now, I go buy myself another 500 GB 7200.11 s***gate and use GetDataBack for NTFS 3.5 and succeed in recovering my data. After that I repartiton the old one, splitting it in half. Everything ran smooth, until the new harddrive started acting like the old one. This time, I got something like a "partition table" crash. I've been torturing Hiren's Boot CD software and GDB since that. After I Used Acronis Disk Director, and just deleted the "never-mounting" partitions and created a new one it stopped crashing WinXp on boot. When I run GDB now, it can see the files, but when it reaches certain sector the prog hangs and it seems like the HDD just powers itself down, bloody thing. Now can anyone give me an advice if there is anyway I can get my data back, before I'll RMA it?I also Used Active@ Uneraser 3, It sees the files and partitions, but when it get's to the "recover" part, it only sees virtual a and b drives. What can I do???Almost forgot: got 2 500 GB Seagate Barracuda 7200.11, f/w SD15, SC KratSG, made in Thailand Edited January 20, 2009 by qdr
WeatherPaparazzi Posted January 20, 2009 Posted January 20, 2009 okay if the update is only for recognized hard drives, what do the ppl whose drives arent recognized do?Good Question, what do those of us do if the Bios wont see the drive? I talked to On Track today and it will cost $500-$1900 to recover my data. That does not include the $100 fee just to look at the drive to see if they can recover the data.
SpXuxu Posted January 20, 2009 Posted January 20, 2009 Seagate's stock were almost $30/share back in 10/13/2003.Today, is as low as $4.11/share !! The HDD problems started around July 2008, look this incredible conscience!It started to drop in 6/2/2008 from $22.27:http://moneycentral.msn.com/investor/chart...p;CP=0&PT=7Meanwhile at Seagate:It can go to the botton, as long as they fix the firmware bug before that...
sieve-x Posted January 20, 2009 Posted January 20, 2009 (edited) The last year (2008) was bad for them and this year results is going to be a lot worse... If investors keeps pulling out their money they may end-up like Micropolis or get incorporated by a Korean competitor (and become Seasung... ). Anyway their Barracuda 7.200 series is now pretty much commercially condemned (who´s gonna buy a 7200.13 ?) and no firmware fix for that.Meanwhile at Seagate:Seagate's stock were almost $30/share back in 10/13/2003.Today, is as low as $4.11/share !! The HDD problems started around July 2008, look this incredible conscience!It started to drop in 6/2/2008 from $22.27:http://moneycentral.msn.com/investor/chart...p;CP=0&PT=7Meanwhile at Seagate: Edited January 20, 2009 by sieve-x
Karlston Posted January 20, 2009 Posted January 20, 2009 (edited) okay if the update is only for recognized hard drives, what do the ppl whose drives arent recognized do?Has anyone tried the update on a PC where the drive is not visible in BIOS? In other words tried the "S" (IIRC) to scan for drives, and see if it appears.Perhaps the firmware updater can see the drive, even though BIOS can't. Edited January 20, 2009 by Karlston
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