Hi there!
I've been a -fairly- long time user of OMV (since 0.4 I think), but this is my very first post on a forum I otherwise tend to read a lot. So first things first: thanks a lot to the whole community around OMV, and major thanks to the ones actually behind OMV. I just love it.
That being said, I've seen the amount of errors on one of my Samsung F4 EcoGreen drives increase lately. Not much: from 0 to 1 and now 2 pending sectors. No big deal you would say. But while digging around this issue, I ended up running smartctl on the said drive, which spits me the following message:
ZitatAlles anzeigen==> WARNING: Using smartmontools or hdparm with this
drive may result in data loss due to a firmware bug.
****** THIS DRIVE MAY OR MAY NOT BE AFFECTED! ******
Buggy and fixed firmware report same version number!
See the following web pages for details:
http://www.samsung.com/global/…iew.do?b2b_bbs_msg_id=386
http://sourceforge.net/apps/tr…wiki/SamsungF4EGBadBlocks
Smartmontools website goes a step further:
ZitatWARNING: Do not use smartmontools with Samsung HD155UI and HD204UI drives unless the firmware patch is already installed.
This warning also applies to other tools which use IDENTIFY DEVICE to obtain drive information. The problem is not SMART related.
The problem could (at least) also be reproduced with hdparm (on Linux and Windows) and with SeaTools for Windows.
Update: According to Samsung Support, HD204UI drives manufactured December 2010 or later include the firmware patch.
Problem: If the system writes to this disk and smartctl -a is used at the same time, write errors are reported and bad blocks appear on the disk.
I personnally don't have bad blocks, so I'm not sure to be really affected by this, despite owning the targeted drives. I will apply the firmware update anyhow.
I've seen on another thread that ryecoaaron has a lot of Samsung F4 2TB drives (don't know if those are EcoGreen or not), so I felt like relaying this rather old information. This may be of interest to someone around here (couldn't find any mention of this issue on the forum).
Best regards,
calemarie
PS: Am I plain stupid, or is there no way to post a thread without the "resolved" tag?
Note that part of this question is rhetorical: please be kind in your replies