Seagate faulty drives

[Richard Hughes]

On Tue, 2009-01-20 at 21:49 +0100, Diego Calleja wrote:
> 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...

Sounds like a really good idea. Could you somehow find out the "FIXME -
STILL UNKNOW" strings? If not we can add the ones we already know.

Rock on,

Richard,