Turns out it is fine. Downloaded SeaTools for DOS, burned to CD, booted to program and reset maximum native size. Worked like a charm. Really huge drive. My second, though first was an Hitachi which is still working fine in another machine.Originally posted by: chiu
hans007 is right. goto the Seagate forums and you'll see quite a bit of dying 1.0tb drives.Originally posted by: hans007
Originally posted by: BarryG
Wish I knew where a firmware update for my 1TB drive could be. Each of three mainboards I've attached it to says it is only 32 MB, i.e. the cache size.
Barry
your drive is actaully broken.
i had a hitachi that would do that, the controller board is dead.
Originally posted by: jjmIII
Originally posted by: zervun
They have a new "version" of this out - I bought one from Newegg a week ago, doesn't require a firmware update.
Ya, they sent me the "new version" on my first RMA.....still sux.
I pd $104 for this drive, and that was too much!
Originally posted by: Finalnight
Skip this, the new 7200.12's are out. Much faster.
Originally posted by: Bee
Originally posted by: Finalnight
Skip this, the new 7200.12's are out. Much faster.
much faster WHAT? Dead?
Originally posted by: hans007
the benchmarks for th e500gb one on the web seem to indicate its not really faster. the 1.5 TB has 375gb platters so i figured its not a huge difference. they havent announced anything over 1TB yet for the new platters wonder why.
Originally posted by: Lurker1
It depends upon your HD. Some get the SD1A firmware, others get the CC1H firmware. Seagate itself gives a rather unsatisfying answer to this. Hopefully the CC1H firmware is ok (initial reports say it has fixed the issues) as that's what my 2 came with.
BTW - if your particular drive should have SD1A, the CC1H firmware will brick it, and vice versa. Or so says Seagate.
BTW, I'm hoping Newegg gets a new stock of Hitachi 1TBs in. Those seems fine by all accounts, and 3 of those would serve as a nice back up for the 2 Seagates.
Originally posted by: hans007
the hitachi 7k1000 isn't very fast though. runs hot as wellsince its 5 platters.
the e7k1000 is nice, not sure its out yet.