[clug] Seagate firmware update under Linux?

[Michael Still]

Hi.

It turns out I am the proud owner of one of the Seagate series 11 drives
with bad firmware. Does anyone know if there is a way of updating the
firmware under Linux? I can't see any mention of one on the Seagate site.

Thanks,
Mikal

[Peter Barker]

Post by Michael Still
It turns out I am the proud owner of one of the Seagate series 11 drives
with bad firmware. Does anyone know if there is a way of updating the
firmware under Linux? I can't see any mention of one on the Seagate site.

Stop.

Don't.

Really.

Unless you're short on bricks.

http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1098793&cid=26542735

I *believe* an email to seagate was required to get it - well, before it
got torrented here, there and everywhere.

Post by Michael Still
Mikal

Yours,

[Michael Still]

Post by Peter Barker

Post by Michael Still
It turns out I am the proud owner of one of the Seagate series 11 drives
with bad firmware. Does anyone know if there is a way of updating the
firmware under Linux? I can't see any mention of one on the Seagate site.

Stop.
Don't.
Really.
Unless you're short on bricks.
http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1098793&cid=26542735
I *believe* an email to seagate was required to get it - well, before it
got torrented here, there and everywhere.

Oh, I understand that they released a bad firmware image, which they've
now pulled. However, I assume they will one day accidentally produce one
which works. When that happens -- is it possible to install such a thing
under Linux?

Mikal

[David Schoen]

It's not possible to install under windows or linux... it's a bootable
ISO, it comes with it's own OS.

Post by Michael Still

Post by Peter Barker

Post by Michael Still
It turns out I am the proud owner of one of the Seagate series 11 drives
with bad firmware. Does anyone know if there is a way of updating the
firmware under Linux? I can't see any mention of one on the Seagate site.

Stop.
Don't.
Really.
Unless you're short on bricks.
http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1098793&cid=26542735
I *believe* an email to seagate was required to get it - well, before it
got torrented here, there and everywhere.

Oh, I understand that they released a bad firmware image, which they've
now pulled. However, I assume they will one day accidentally produce one
which works. When that happens -- is it possible to install such a thing
under Linux?
Mikal
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[David Schoen]

As far as I'm aware all their firmware upgrades are ISO files (I have
been through this ages ago).

Links from this page
http://seagate.custkb.com/seagate/crm/selfservice/news.jsp?DocId=207931
seem to end up at download pages for ISO upgrades like this one
http://seagate.custkb.com/seagate/crm/selfservice/search.jsp?DocId=207951
.

But as Peter says, upgrading may be quite bad...

Dave.

Post by Michael Still
Hi.
It turns out I am the proud owner of one of the Seagate series 11 drives
with bad firmware. Does anyone know if there is a way of updating the
firmware under Linux? I can't see any mention of one on the Seagate site.
Thanks,
Mikal
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[Ian Matters]

Hi all.

I'm using a couple of ST3750330AS drives in my Ubuntu server. Looking
at the Seagate website it seems that only certain drive firmware
version need to be updated.

Any suggestions of how to check the drive firmware version from
Linux? I tries the command line SeaTools but it didn't run for some
reason.

Cheers,
Ian Matters
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Post by Michael Still
Hi.
It turns out I am the proud owner of one of the Seagate series 11 drives
with bad firmware. Does anyone know if there is a way of updating the
firmware under Linux? I can't see any mention of one on the Seagate site.
Thanks,
Mikal
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[Mark Suter]

Ian,

Any suggestions of how to check the drive firmware version from Linux? I
tries the command line SeaTools but it didn't run for some reason.

$ hdparm -I /dev/sda | grep Firmware

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[Ian Matters]

Thanks all.

I used
sudo hdparm -I /dev/sdx | grep Model ; sudo hdparm -I /dev/sdx | grep
Firmware

to do the job.

My firmware version on both Seagate ST3750330AS drives is reportedly
one of the problematic ones (SD15) but because I'm not experiencing
any problems at the moment I'm somewhat reluctant to risk playing
around with the drive firmware. In the meantime daily backups and
SMART reports as well as crossed fingers will hopefully save the day.

Cheers,
Ian Matters
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Post by Ian Matters
Hi all.
I'm using a couple of ST3750330AS drives in my Ubuntu server.
Looking at the Seagate website it seems that only certain drive
firmware version need to be updated.
Any suggestions of how to check the drive firmware version from
Linux? I tries the command line SeaTools but it didn't run for some
reason.
Cheers,
Ian Matters
--

[Brett Worth]

Post by Ian Matters
Thanks all.
I used
sudo hdparm -I /dev/sdx | grep Model ; sudo hdparm -I /dev/sdx | grep Firmware

Or just for fun in case any of you haven't seen this:

sudo hdparm -I /dev/sdx | egrep "Model|Firmware"

Brett