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Seagate had their problems too around that time. The Barracuda 7200.10 was infamous not just for its bug but also for Seagate's response. From what I recall,
by philpem 7y ago
Seagate had their problems too around that time.
The Barracuda 7200.10 was infamous not just for its bug but also for Seagate's response.
From what I recall, the SMART log wrapped around periodically - if the drive was reset when the pointer was at a certain value, it failed to boot with an assertion failure. 1 in 128 chance of a failure on a given power-up.
Thankfully someone found out that you could send a couple of debug commands to it with an FTDI cable and get your data back.