Maxtor releases firmware fix for NFORCE4

[LiamC]

Maxtor URL

http://techreport.com/ja.zz?comments=9359

The drives affected are those with model numbers starting with:

# 6V- (DiamondMax 10)

# 6H- (DiamondMax 11)

# 7V- (Maxline III)

# 7H- (MaxLine Pro 500)

 

[time]

Thanks for testing my horizontal scrolling for me, Bill.

At the time most of the updates were for RAID controller problems, especially 3ware.
...
Only Maxtor drive I've ever bought has been one of their OneTouch models and it's now on replacement #3 after less than 6 months.

I bought a lot of Seagate drives with my Maxtor paychecks.

 

[Will Rickards]

I think mine is a 6Y, I'll have to check my records at home.
I'm definitely using a maxtor on an nforce4 though.
Not as my boot drive but where all my important data resides.

 

[Will Rickards]

Shrink that link
http://tinyurl.com/98a66

 

[Will Rickards]

So it looks like only SATA drives, good mine is PATA so no worries.

 

[Pradeep]

Does this affect boards based on the NForce4 Professional chipset, such as the Supermicro HD8CE?

 

[Handruin]

I fixed the link.

 

[LiamC]

Thanks for testing my horizontal scrolling for me, Bill.

OK, OK! I hate horizontal scrolling too—but I can't think the last time I actually posted a long URL anywhere.

I have now gone to TinyURL to see what it's about, how to use it and I promise not to do it again.

 

[Gilbo]

Does this affect boards based on the NForce4 Professional chipset, such as the Supermicro HD8CE?

It would. But only if NCQ is enabled I believe. That's why Linux users haven't experienced these data corruption problems, our current SATA driver doesn't support NCQ.

 

[Pradeep]

Oh, so this problem only affects the on-board SATA ports? No worries, we're running Areca RAID controllers.

Thanks for the info Gilbo