> > > positives and false negatives. After deciding that the results were > > > far too unreliable, the page was pulled. > > > > That too. For one thing people were entering the serial numbers > > using lower case letters and getting false negatives. > > this is a joke, right?
As far as I can tell it is not a joke. The people entering the serial numbers might have been wintel users and thus not too bright. Seagate's quality control dept is clearly missing in action lately. > > As I understand it, updating the firmware on some mainboards IS risky. > > It may well be that some combinations don't work, but at some point, > I'd say that this should fall into the category of "you get what you > pay for". IOW, I can't imagine that doing this kind of stuff right > would cost more than, say, $1 for a drive, and $5 for a motherboard, > and I think that everyone should be prepared to add, say, $50 to a > small server to get these things, ie, (much) less broken designs, imho. > But the bigger problem is that currently there appears to be no way to > add $50, or even $500, to a server, to get these things right because > there seems to be no vendor who offers such stuff. The idiots in charge of most companies don't care about quality control. Sigh. I could easily go on a major rant here, but it wouldn't do us any good. Anyone have information or ideas that could get us closer to a solution?
