Re: [smartmontools-support]IBM IC35L040AVER07-0 firmware updates

[Micah A. <mi...@ri...>]

I can cite direct experience... running smartctl -t long on the device
and then smartctl -a on the device effectively i/o locked the machine.
Had to hard power restart (and take out smartd from starting), fsck
came up fine and now the machine is fine. After looking on the web for
information about these drives, we have decided to go get a
replacement drive right away and move our data off of it ASAP.

micah


On Wed, 15 Oct 2003, Bruce Allen wrote:

> > According to my smartctl -a on my drive which reports to be a
> > IC35L040AVER07-0:
> > 
> > ==> WARNING: IBM Deskstar 60GXP drives may need upgraded SMART firmware.
> > Please see http://www.geocities.com/dtla_update/index.html#rel
> > 
> > This is good to know... however, it doesn't say on that page how I can
> > tell if a firmware upgrade is needed, and why... and even worse, the
> > link is dead for the most recent firmware (A46A):
> > http://anders.fugmann.dhs.org/ibm/
> > 
> > I was able to go to the older firmware page (A45A:
> > http://freemail.web.de/jump.htm?url=http://www-1.ibm.com/support/manager.wss%3Frs=0%26rt=0%26org=psg%26doc=MIGR-43972)
> > 
> > and it brought me to the IBM firware page which said:
> > This firmware update has been developed to improve hard drive
> > stability and the SMART offline data collection process. It is part of
> > our ongoing commitment to improve hard drive quality
> > 
> > Does anyone know how to tell if the model/firmware that you have on
> > the machine needs updating? And what pray-tell does this fix? I hate
> > doing disk firmware upgrades unless they are absolutely needed
> > (besides the fact that someone has to go to the colo...).
> 
> Micah,
> 
> I don't have any direct experience.  However I think that IBM has a
> firmware upgrade tool that will offer advice about whether or not you need
> a firmware upgrade.
> 
> It's very possible that upgrading the firmware will cause the disk to lose
> all it's data -- I'm not sure.
> 
> Bruce
> 
> 
> 
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