03-23-2006, 07:19 AM
Think we might have crossed wires here... not my intention at all to suggest that 7200.8s have and SSC enabled issues. It's only the 7200.9s that I am aware of shipping from Seagate with SSC. the .9 is the series - not related to capacity, related to model generation. 7200.9 is the latest Barracuda model version line.
There are 7200.9 SATAs under 300GB...
ST3160812AS is a 7200.9 SATA 160GB
ST3200827AS is a 7200.9 SATA 200GB
ST3250824AS is a 7200.9 SATA 250GB
......
ST3500641AS is a 7200.9 SATA 500GB
It was because we tested with the Firmtek card that that we missed this issue initially in the beginning of November. Customer says drive doesn't work right - we get it, works fine (passes all tests connected to our firmtek card)- send it back, doesn't work right. Get it back - recreate customer test in our G5 - woah, doesn't work - talk to Seagate - SSC enable issue, no disable option. Yikes. We're a Seagate Partner and had been none too please at the time. Lots of Mac users and PC users depending on SATA controller also were not pleased - while it's stupid that the issue was a problem at all, it was good that Seagate made the PC utility for disabling SSC - and that solved things - if with a little extra effort. Any 7200.9 bought from us is all good to go in any g5.
Anyway.....you're good to go with the 7200.8s. And I THINK that at some recent point, the SSC feature being enabled by default was not going to be the case... That default would be disabled with option to enable - but I don't know that one 100%.
And wish they did a darn OS X app for doing the enable/disable so wouldn't need to involve a PC.
There are 7200.9 SATAs under 300GB...
ST3160812AS is a 7200.9 SATA 160GB
ST3200827AS is a 7200.9 SATA 200GB
ST3250824AS is a 7200.9 SATA 250GB
......
ST3500641AS is a 7200.9 SATA 500GB
It was because we tested with the Firmtek card that that we missed this issue initially in the beginning of November. Customer says drive doesn't work right - we get it, works fine (passes all tests connected to our firmtek card)- send it back, doesn't work right. Get it back - recreate customer test in our G5 - woah, doesn't work - talk to Seagate - SSC enable issue, no disable option. Yikes. We're a Seagate Partner and had been none too please at the time. Lots of Mac users and PC users depending on SATA controller also were not pleased - while it's stupid that the issue was a problem at all, it was good that Seagate made the PC utility for disabling SSC - and that solved things - if with a little extra effort. Any 7200.9 bought from us is all good to go in any g5.
Anyway.....you're good to go with the 7200.8s. And I THINK that at some recent point, the SSC feature being enabled by default was not going to be the case... That default would be disabled with option to enable - but I don't know that one 100%.
And wish they did a darn OS X app for doing the enable/disable so wouldn't need to involve a PC.