![]() ![]() : Samsung released a firmware patch for HD204UI/JP. : Samsung released a firmware patch for HD155UI and HD204UI. : Samsung confirmed the problem and provided a beta version of the firmware patch. : We could reproduce the problem, see below. : The info is published on heise online news (German) (updated, ). Please note that it might be too late then because the IDENTIFY DEVICE command is the actual problem. A warning is printed if such a drive is detected. : Drive database file for smartmontools 5.39.X and 5.40 is updated. It could also be reproduced with Seagate SeaTools for Windows. ![]() ![]() It could also be reproduced with hdparm -I on Linux.This command sends only one ATA command to the disk: IDENTIFY DEVICE. It could also be reproduced if only smartctl -i is used.It could also be reproduced on an AMD based system with NVIDIA nForce 520 chipset.It could also be reproduced on an system with Intel P45 chipset.It could not be reproduced on the same AMD system and amdsata.sys driver with the following other disks:.It could also be reproduced on another system with an AMD chipset under Windows and drivers msahci.sys or amdsata.sys.It could not be reproduced if the Intel H55 chipset is set to IDE mode.It could also be reproduced under Linux (Fedora 14) if AHCI is enabled and the following commands are run in parallel:.SATA-AHCI-Driver: Intel Rapid Storage Technology (RST) 9.6 This was reported by a reader and could be reproduced in c't magazine lab on the following system: Problem: If the system writes to this disk and smartctl -a (5.40) is used at the same time, write errors are reported and bad blocks appear on the disk.Affected disk: SAMSUNG SpinPoint F4 EcoGreen 2TB.Here are the details as reported by c't and : We received a problem report from German c't magazine. The warning will also be printed when the patch is already installed!.Smartctl 5.39.X and 5.40 print a warning if the user has done a drive database update after.Update: Samsung HDD support info is now included in the Seagate Knowledge Base.Update: According to Samsung Support, HD204UI drives manufactured December 2010 or later include the firmware patch (see smartmontools-support mailing list).THE SAMSUNG FIRMWARE PATCH DOES NOT CHANGE THE FIRMWARE VERSION NUMBER (Believe it or not!).The problem could (at least) also be reproduced with hdparm (on Linux and Windows) and with SeaTools for Windows.This warning also applies to other tools which use IDENTIFY DEVICE to obtain drive information.Samsung provides separate patches for HD155UI and HD204UI and for HD204UI/JP.WARNING: Do not use smartmontools with Samsung HD155UI and HD204UI drives unless the firmware patch is already installed.Using smartctl with Samsung F4 EcoGreen drives may result in data loss ![]()
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