Barny's Journal: Seagate finally have a fix for their 1.5TB drives

http://forums.seagate.com/stx/board/message?board.id=ata_drives&thread.id=2879&view=by_date_ascending&page=21

This is an official Seagate announcement.



Seagate 1.5TB Customers,
Some Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 1.5TB hard drives may show uncharacteristic operation when used with Mac and Linux operating systems in multi-drive configurations. Users may experiences pauses in video streaming applications or a dropped drive from RAID arrays. Customers seeing these symptoms should contact Seagate Technical Support directly by phone or by email for a firmware upgrade.

In order to assure the proper application of the new firmware, please communicate/have ready a description of the issues you're seeing when you contact Seagate Technical Support. Please include the following disk drive information:


* model number (see here for help determining the model number)
* serial number (see here for help determining the serial number)
* current firmware revision (Seatools for DOS can tell you, and it should also be listed on the drive label)


Also, please describe

* your system
* your operating system, and
* the application in use when the issue arose.


You will receive a prompt response with appropriate instructions.