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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