> > 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
> じゃあどうすればいいのよ(´ー｀)

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参考：2009/01/21(水)23時52分34秒