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If you like to check whether your hdd is affected by a Seagate/Maxtor firmware fault, use this short tutorial.

Enter your drive's serial number here into: Seagate's firmware update check tool (https://apps1.seagate.com/rms_af_srl_chk/). After that, follow the instructions. If you see "No action required", your drive is not affected by the firmware fault.

How to know your drive's serial:

Linux

I use startctl (http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net).

smartctl -i /dev/sdX

(press TAB after dev/sd and enter your drive number from the given list, for example /dev/sda. However on different distros hdd filename differs, so ou may need to refer to docs). In output of command you'll see your serial:

Serial number:      9RA21232

Windows

I use Seagate DriveDetect.
Here's a screenshot of how output should look like.

In any case, back your data up regularly!

Labels: failure, hdd, seagate

Permanent link. Posted by Shamil Gumirov @ 1:37 PM