February 7, 200917 yr I'm confused. I have 4 Seagate 7200.11 drives: 2 1T on firmware AD14 (in my array) 2 750G on firmware SD15 (never opened) I opened the 750G drives today and noticed they were on SD15 firmware. So I started doing some searching and saw that both AD14 and SD15 firmware are both affected (I had checked a while back and had NOT seen AD14 on the list). So I did more searching and found a website where you can enter model and serial numbers to determine if a drive is affected. Both my models reported being possibly affected. Searching by serial number, it says only ONE of the 1T drives (AD14) is affected. It reports the other 3 are not. I'm totally confused - I thought the problem was BASED ON the model and firmware level, and that I'd need to update all 4 of these. Can anyone help straighten me out? Should I only update 1 drive?
February 7, 200917 yr The gist of what I've read is that the affected drives were tested at the factories with a certain test program, thus not all drives even from the same factory are affected... were I you, I would only update the one drive. That being said, a link to the diagnostic you mentioned would be appreciated and relevant...
February 7, 200917 yr Author http://seagate.custkb.com/seagate/crm/selfservice/search.jsp?DocId=207931
February 8, 200917 yr I too have read that story that the factory used a test program and didn't properly clear some data. I don't buy it. This would not require a firmware update but rather a utility to fix whatever the test program left behind. Myself, I would just update them all. Peter
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