Re: Samsung HD204UI (2TB F4EG) disk vs smart
From: Roman Mamedov <hidden>
Date: 2011-02-15 22:00:52
On Wed, 16 Feb 2011 08:40:59 +1100 Eyal Lebedinsky [off-list ref] wrote:
In the end the problem turned out to be the disks. It seems that these
popular (cheap) disks have a firmware bug that causes bad writes if a
specific smart command is issued at the right (wrong) time.
There is a fw fix but I found it not widely advertised. It can be found
here
http://www.samsung.com/global/business/hdd/faqView.do?b2b_bbs_msg_id=386
Unfortunately it does *not* change the fw revision so you will not know
if your disk has the patch applied or not. I just applied it and so far
so good. My fw rev was (and still is) 1AQ10001.You are right. Here is the most comprehensive documentation on this issue: http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/smartmontools/wiki/SamsungF4EGBadBlocks -- With respect, Roman
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