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[Robotbeat]

I should note that we haven't had any big problems with the barracudas. It was just precautionary.

[budy]

I should note that we haven't had any big problems with the barracudas. It was just precautionary.

Oh sigh… I am having 200+ of these with SN05. How long did it take to update 16?

Cheers,
budy

[Robotbeat]

Oh, it was pretty quick. Once I got the hang of it, it was about a minute per drive. Unfortunately, you're supposed to reboot every time you flash one, but since I was just booting to the firmware update USB flash drive, that was very quick. If you had all of the 200 hard-drives just sitting there for you, you could do it in about half a day. If you wanted to be faster, I suppose you could have two machines going at once. Also, you're supposed to use an onboard SATA controller (just the basic type of one included in most motherboards today), since the FreeDOS version that Seagate uses doesn't have room for very many drivers.

[Robotbeat]

What took the longest was figuring out how to get the frakking USB stick to boot with the firmware updating software our vendor gave us from Seagate. Finally, our hardware vendor emailed me the USB stick formatter that Seagate uses. After that, it was easy.