I also bought a N7700 last week and the 1.5t drives but the drives are still waiting to be delivered.
Also noticed this issue on the myth-tv forum this morning.....
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mythtv-users-bounces@mythtv.org [mailto:mythtv-users-
> bounces@mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Michael T. Dean
> Sent: Wednesday, 12 November 2008 12:09 PM
> To: Discussion about mythtv
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Seagate confirms problems with 1.5TB
> Barracuda drives
>
> On 11/12/2008 10:13 AM, Kevin Kuphal wrote:
> > I figured some mythtv users may have these drives in their systems.
> >
> >
techreport.com/discussions.x/15863>
> I actually have one of the affected models ( 9JU138-300 ) with the
> affected firmware ( SD17 ), but TTBOMK I haven't experienced the issue.
> Or, at least, I've noticed no signs of experiencing that issue.
>
> I am running on a PCI SATA card at 1.5Gbps (150MB/s). Perhaps that helps?
>
> The funny part is that I have another unaffected Seagate 1.5TB (
> 9JU138-568 with firmware SD35 ) that was causing me unrelated problems.
> It would fail to initialize on cold boot before the SATA card probed
> it (100% repeatable), so the SATA card prevented the system from booting.
> After a couple of hours of playing, I found that moving that drive to
> a different computer (from my master backend to a remote backend) made
> it work. It seems the remote backend system boots just slightly
> slower--enough so that the drive finishes initializing before the
> probe. The only reason I tried switching systems was because I
> figured if my master backend failed to boot, I had no Myth at all, but
> if my remote backend failed to boot, I'd still have "half" a Myth system.
> Imagine how surprised I was when everything worked after the drive swap.
>
> Oh, and if anyone is looking to try a firmware update for the lock-up
> problem (I haven't--as I haven't experienced the problem--so I'm not
> recommending it), it seems that the most-current firmware is SD35 and
> you can only get it by calling Seagate at 1-800-SEAGATE . The online
> chat guys don't have access to the firmware updates. (I found this
> out when chatting with a tech last night--who blamed my SATA card/its
> BIOS for the above-mentioned problem. Sure, it may be the card's
> fault, but that doesn't help me as it also has the most-current
> firmware. I just needed the drive to initialize just a tiny bit
> faster.)
>
> Mike
>
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