Seagate faulty drives

[Diego Calleja]

Tech sites are reporting everywhere a massive flaw in seagate drives that
can lock up the drive and make it unusable (the bios doesn't detect it, you
can't read the data). Seagate has ack'ed the problem and firmware updates
are required: http://seagate.custkb.com/seagate/crm/selfservice/search.jsp?DocId=207931

So, apparently there're a lot of drives on the market (including mine)
that can die any day. Here's a preliminary .fdi file (attached) that could
be included in hal-info to warn users of the problems. I'm not an expert
in .fdi files so i'd like to know if this is the correct way of writing
them. It's not complete because seagate still has not been able to diagnose
in some models which firmwares are affected, but hopefully as soon as
the data is available this .fdi file can be included in hal-info...




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