Quoting Filipe Brandenburger <filbranden at gmail.com>: > Hi, > > On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 14:20, Gilbert > Sebenste<sebenste at weather.admin.niu.edu> wrote: >> No need to...Seagate screws me again. 3rd bad hard drive on this server. >> Unbelievable. Under warranty, but...grrrr. > > I heard something about the 1.5TB Seagate drives having bugs that > would cause data corruption, and that it could be fixed by doing a > firmware upgrade, which can be accomplished with a tool downloaded > from their website... It's second hand information, but maybe check > their website and google for your exact model to see if there is > something wrong with it... you're right, there was a firmware bug and Seagate has a diagnostic program to check whether your drive is affected and an update patch to fix it. Not only that but if the drive is bricked they are [were] offering data recovery. Dave > > HTH, > Filipe > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -- In the world?s anti-Bush zones it is fashionable to regard him as an imperialist redneck of limited intellectual capacities. -- George Ross in Le Monde Diplomatique