

This then avoids yet other oddities with power saving and backup solutions not compatible with Linux which keeps you from using your external drive you paid real money for with Linux. It is OK to have an external drive as long as you matched it up with an external drive enclosure yourself. My only other suggestion with hard drives is to stick with bare drives and stay away from pre-made external hard drives. It happens time and time again on all sorts of products. Samsung has a huge Plant here in Austin and buys millions of dollars of stuff from the company I work for, but I am incredulous in any of their technologies are of real value and can come up with some incredible issues. First a warning: Apparently, one should be sure to update the firmware, otherwise there is a risk of data corruption when running the SMART commands with this. Again, any hard drive could fail, but only Samsung could come up with something like this. This is the kind of BS I am talking about concerning Samsung.

If you have a Samsung drive with a patch available, you should upgradeįWIW, I’m a fan of Samsung drives and have several, thankfully not one Unfortunately the updated firmware has the same version number as theįaulty firmware, so there’s no way to know if it was already done, DOH! The only solution is to update the firmware as described, but

If the smartctl utility is run with them, and in some other Product link: Samsung HD204UI PCB Board BF41-00314A 00 Step 3: Firmware Transfer on PCB boards In most cases, you need to transfer the BIOS chip (HDD firmware are usually stored in the BIOS chip) before you swap hard drive PCB, in order to make the donor board compatible with your HDD. Is used used according to the specification. Samsung produced some drive models that fail when the IDENTIFY command
