Belaboured disk drive outfit Seagate has its hand full trying to fix a flaw in its  flagship high-capacity Barracuda 7200.11 hard drive and its Barracuda ES.2 and DiamondMax 22 Serial ATA drives.

Last week the outfit released the second of two fixes for the firmware bug that caused the problem, and it offered affected users free data recovery services from its i365 business unit. It is the second go the company had at fixing the bug.  Its first release on January 16 had flaws of its own.  The flaw caused the drives to freeze  during I/O transfers of streaming video or when reading or writing files at low speeds.

Seagate says that it hasn't got a clue how many of the drives are failing although Duncan Clarke, managing director at Retrodata, told Computerworld that he and some colleagues in the data recovery industry believe that failure rates on Seagate's Barracuda 7200.11 drive are about 30%.

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