[SOC] [OT] A word of sound advice for everyone on the list

[Ian C. Purdie]

FWD: From my Electronics Discussion List:

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This might sound like a hoax but unfortunately it is not.

This has been on the internet since January but I learned about it the 
hard way only last week.

If you have Seagate Hard disk in your PC they might stop working, as 
mine did because of a bug in the firmware.

The bug affects a significant portion of not only Seagate's Barracuda 
7200.11 drives, but Barracuda ES.2 SATA and Maxtor DiamondMax 22 drives. 
Forums across the Internet have been filled with warnings not to buy 
drives that feature the SD15 revision of firmware; however, Seagate's 
own documentation shows that SD16, SD17, SD18, and SD19 are also 
affected within certain model numbers.

Check here
http://seagate.custkb.com/seagate/crm/selfservice/search.jsp?DocId=207951&Hilite=

to see if your hard disk is listed and act quickly.

The hard disk works ok until one time when you reboot and it doesn't get 
recognized by the bios any more. Like mine did.

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72/73's

Ian C. Purdie
Budgewoi N.S.W. Australia - Co-ords -S33° 13' 54.70", +E151° 33' 4.75"
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