Having now realised that one of my drives is on the list in the previous post, I tried to register my problem with Seagate. They don’t make it easy, as you have to register with the site first. See this post from MacInTouch. As I am registered with them as a reseller, I actually went in through their resellers’ site. I finally got to the correct page and filled out the form on Jan 18th 2009. I received an automated email back from them asking….
“If you wish to receive a response from a Customer Support Agent, please log into My Cases and update your case by selecting “Yes – Escalate Case to Seagate Support” from the Escalate Case dropdown. If you don’t require further assistance your case will remain in a Self-Service status.”
So I logged on again and escalated it to Seagate Support and immediately got another automated email from them saying…
“Your inquire Case has been escalated to a Customer Support Agent. You should expect a response from us within 24 hours. You can also log into My Cases to review or update your case.”
Well that was at 9:05am on Jan 19th 2009. I am still waiting to hear anything. My guess is that they have been inundated with requests. This then came up on the Macworld news RSS feed just after I escalated my support request.