Episode Details

Oxide and Friends Twitter Space: June 7, 2021

Barracuda 7200.11: broken firmware is broken software!

We’ve been holding a Twitter Space weekly on Mondays at 5p (PT) for about an hour. In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, speakers included Laura Abbott, Joshua Clulow, Dan Cross, Bill Blum, Rick Altherr, Tom Lyon, and others. The recording is here.

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Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them:

• The Seagate ST3000DM001
  • class action
• [@2:01](https://youtu.be/qisoAIx8EE8?t=121) Bryan and Adam’s experience 
  • Fishworks
  • HGST
  • Bryan is unable to forget SU0D > This thing damn near ruined our lives
  • Broad Institute
  • The Seagate Barracuda product line. 7200.10, 7200.11
• [@8:10](https://youtu.be/qisoAIx8EE8?t=490) Tough customers
• [@10:17](https://youtu.be/qisoAIx8EE8?t=617) Cargo cultism and bad interview questions 
  • What is a Good New Englander? We’re not a hugging people.
• [@12:35](https://youtu.be/qisoAIx8EE8?t=755) Adam and Bryan after Sean Manaea’s 2018 no-no
• The Gift of the Magi, LBA
• [@15:11](https://youtu.be/qisoAIx8EE8?t=911) Adam torments the interns
• [@16:41](https://youtu.be/qisoAIx8EE8?t=1001) Bill and the HP Z620s
  • The Wisdom of James Mickens
• [@19:21](https://youtu.be/qisoAIx8EE8?t=1161) Rick’s story 
  • Fast and loose firmware source control
  • Western Digital’s Sparta drive, flying too low
• [@25:34](https://youtu.be/qisoAIx8EE8?t=1534) Need for open source firmware (see also: Bryan explains why proprietary firmware is a problem ~3mins) 
  • Vendor gaslighting
• [@27:48](https://youtu.be/qisoAIx8EE8?t=1668) Tom on custom firmware 
  • Rent seeking
  • S.M.A.R.T.
  • ADM-3A “dumb terminal”
• [@32:08](https://youtu.be/qisoAIx8EE8?t=1928) Adam’s firmware horror story flashbacks 
  • HBA
  • When turning it off and on again isn’t enough: unplug and replug
  • Sun’s ILOM bug
  • Sun