> You might want to think again before flashing your Seagate hard 
> drive with whatever firmware the company provides as a 'fix' to 
> pending firmware issues with some of its Barracuda 7200.11 series 
> hard drives. The latest firmware by the company, version SD1A 
> turned many a hard drive unfortunate enough to be flashed with 
> it, to paperweights. After flashing the drives with the new 
> firmware, users reported receiving disk failure messages, and 
> systems not being able to access - let alone boot from - the 
> drives. Users claimed to have lost data and backups stored on the 
> hard drive, since the drive is rendered inaccessible from any 
> machine. 
> Following these reports, the company removed the firmware update 
> pending validation. It is not known at this point as to how the 
> company plans to address its disgruntled customers, whether it 
> creates a window for hard drives failed as a result of upgrading 
> to this firmware to be replaced under the company warranty or 
> free of charge. The SD1A firmware update was released by the 
> company to address stability issues certain models of the 
> Barracuda 7200.11 series hard drives were diagnosed with. 
> 
> http://www.techpowerup.com/index.php?82638

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参考：2009/01/21(水)23時49分43秒