Seagate new firmware fails.

As per my previous post regarding the release of new firmware fix used for correcting issues concerned with Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 HDDs has turned out to be a failure.Seagate has originally quoted that all users who are facing the issue would be offered a free firmware upgrade by contacting them using the phone numbers and email. Now AnandTech decided to upgrade all their Seagate drives with this latest firmware and what they get is bricked drives.This is what Anandtech quoted

We decided to follow Seagate’s instructions and updated several of our other Barracuda 7200.11 drives today that were identified to have suspect firmware with the revised SD1A firmware. Our ST3500320AS (500GB) and ST3640330AS (640GB) drives are bricked now. It appears this is a widespread problem, once again, and Seagate has pulled this firmware. We do not have a response from Seagate yet, but how in world they let this one get by qualification testing is beyond us. At this time, do not flash your drives if you have the SD1A firmware.

Seagate figured out the SD1A firmware problem and has posted a new set of instructions for owners of their drives. Our ST3500320AS (500GB) and ST3640330AS (640GB) drives were bricked by the previous firmware update. We have good news to report as the latest firmware brought our drives back to life.  Granted, our OS drive on the ST3640330AS will need a new OS load as a core DLL file was apparently damaged when the drive bricked, but all other data on the drive was recoverable.  We suggest trying this new firmware now.

So all Seagate users download the latest firmware instructions.Please check this link for more info.

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