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Post by kevlarlover on Jan 22, 2009 0:57:03 GMT 7
For those of you who don't know, Seagate has major firmware problems with almost all of its newer drives: seagate.custkb.com/seagate/crm/selfservice/search.jsp?DocId=207931it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/01/21/0052236I have two Thecus 5200BR systems, one with firmware 2.00.10 and the other with 2.00.14. The 2.00.10 system has 5 Seagate Barracuda ES.2 ST3750330NS drives, and the 2.00.14 system has 5 Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 ST31000340AS drives. All 10 of the drives are affected by the Seagate firmware problem, so I would like to update them. Before I do that, I want to know whether the Thecus RAID will reject the updated drives as "new" drives, meaning that I'll have to rebuild each RAID 5 times in order to do the update, or whether the RAID system does not consider firmware version when deciding whether a drive "belongs" to a particular RAID volume or not. And a related question: I know Thecus says to back up RAID data before updating the Thecus 5200 firmware, but that's not realistic for me to do, though I would like to update my servers to 2.00.15 - have people had good experiences with updating firmware without backing up, or have people lost RAID volumes when updating the Thecus 5200 firmware? Thank you for the help, kevlarlover
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flynn
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Post by flynn on Jan 23, 2009 0:51:06 GMT 7
I'm in the same boat with 3 x ST31000340NS (and I haven't even received the new SN06 firmware yet).
What would people expect the Thecus to do after flashing these drives with a new firmware?
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flynn
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Post by flynn on Jan 23, 2009 0:51:43 GMT 7
(btw, mods you should probably move this to the Installations forum)
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gonz0
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Post by gonz0 on Jan 23, 2009 6:02:45 GMT 7
the data on the drives will remain the same so the thecus shouldnt bat an eyelid at them
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flynn
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Post by flynn on Jan 24, 2009 10:14:45 GMT 7
Still waiting for my ES.2 firmware - once I get my hands on it, I'll flash and let you know.
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Post by kevlarlover on Jan 24, 2009 12:27:58 GMT 7
Hi flynn,
Thanks for being willing to experiment - I'm very curious to see how it goes for you!
Thanks again, kevlarlover
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Post by flynn on Mar 4, 2009 14:21:08 GMT 7
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Post by flynn on Mar 24, 2009 13:36:08 GMT 7
Just flashed my 3 ES.2 ST31000340NS drives to SN06. Did the first one, booted the NAS, no issues. Did the next two, booted the NAS, no issues. RAID 5 still intact, everything appears find after an hour of uptime.
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