Re: Some Seagate hard drive users at risk

Thank you for the hdparm incantation Brett. Naive question - is the disc 
manufacturer implicit in the Model|Serial information?

DaveR

Brett Delmage wrote:
> On Thu, 23 Jul 2009, Andy Civil wrote:
>
>> Incredible; I just suffered from this, but it raises the question of 
>> how to raise people's awareness of it. I read your mail back in 
>> January, but I didn't realise that I had a Seagate drive. I don't 
>> remember buying it!
>
> Ouch. Sorry to hear that.  perhaps by sharing your experience, this 
> will at least remind people on this list, who will not be encouraged 
> to check their drives, now that it's not just rumoured to be a 
> problem... :-(
>
>> I was going to post about it myself, but if your post didn't protect 
>> me, then how was my post going to protect others? The sad fact is, 
>> normal people don't know what brand of hard disk they have... they 
>> have lives to lead! And it's not sufficiently likely for you to go 
>> digging in your computer to check.
>
> With Linux, we have some good tools to quickly check.
> As root, or sudo the following command:
>
>     hdparm -I /dev/sd? | egrep "Model|Serial|Firmware"
>
> (I'm sure there are 23 other ways to get this info, depending on your 
> distro, and some possibly not requiring root access.)
>
> http://seagate.custkb.com/seagate/crm/selfservice/search.jsp?DocId=207931#Id109278 
>
>
> Hmm. (or yikes?) 2 of 3 drive serial numbers I just entered into the 
> website to test these instructions might be flagged as a problem. I'll 
> have to look into this further... Andy, you may have just made my day ;-)
>
> I'm also going to take this opportunity give PC Cyber a thumbs down 
> here. I bought two drives in late winter, a fair time after this 
> problem was known, and they were still selling drives with bad 
> firmware, not having bothered to test them before sale. (I checked my 
> SN as soon as I got the drive home)
>
> Brett
>
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