EDITOR'S NOTE

Good morning,

Well.. perhaps except if you're one of the Seagate customers affected by their firmware fix which has disabled access to some Barracuda drives.

The update was supposed to address a problem that caused drives to freeze; now it seems some customers can't access their data, period.

Apparently there 'should' be a better firmware update available within 24 hours, or they'll recover your data for free.

-- Ry Crozier

TODAY ON ITNEWS

By Ian Williams | January 22, 2009

Storage firm Seagate has received a raft of complaints following a firmware update that rendered many 500GB hard drives in its Barracuda 7200.11 range completely inaccessible.

By Daniel Robinson | January 22, 2009

Red Hat has released the latest version of its corporate Linux distribution, offering enhanced support for virtualisation and an open source implementation of Sun Microsystems' Java platform for the first time.

By Daniel Robinson | January 22, 2009

Adobe is to open up the messaging protocol used in its Flash platform to deliver multimedia content over the internet, in a move designed to help developers build richer applications.

By Nick Farrell | January 22, 2009

It seems that the world plus dog is falling over itself to filter the World Wide Web in a desperate bid to protect children from things they can handle on their own.

By Phil Muncaster | January 22, 2009

Enterprise content management (ECM) firm Alfresco has released a major new version of its Alfresco Labs open source application, designed to offer greater social computing and collaborative functionality, and a viable alternative to Microsoft SharePoint.

By Staff Writers | January 22, 2009

Apple said on Tuesday it had launched an online shop selling second-hand Apple products in China, offering discounts of up to 22 percent, as it looks to beef up its business in the country.

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