[Gllug] Replacement SATA disk naming

[Alain Williams]

On Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 01:43:52PM +0000, j.roberts wrote:
> Alain Williams wrote:
> 
> > [**] System new in November, a disk (Seagate Barracuda) failed/replaced in Jan
> > and this new disk (MAXTOR) failed a couple of days ago.
> > A different m/c with new 1TB disks had one of them fail after 3 weeks.
> > Is 1TB pushing the technology limits or am I just unlucky ?
> 
> 
> These drives (probably) have the known bad firmware which causes lockup 
> on boot.
> 
> Seagate offer a data recovery service and replacements.

Thanks: but nothing lost since the disk was one side of a mirror (raid 1).

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