might this be one of the bad firmware seagates? if you go back a few
months in the archives you'll find my posting about the $8 interface I
used to reset mine.
When mine died it was during a reboot, was there & when I rebooted it
wasn't. Error was a sticky logging bug which left drive "BUSY" after a
reset.
On 9/10/2010 7:10 PM, Winterlight wrote:
I have a 18 month old 1TB Seagate HD that has apparently died. I had
about 800GB of video on it, two thirds of the space were backups of my
DVD collection and I still have the DVDs so it could of been a lot
worse. I was running it in an external drive bay, pretty much 24/7 when
it just disappeared. I have never lost a drive by just disappearing, two
others I have lost in the past all died slowly with failed access
warnings or just screwing things up but this just went silently.
After trying restarts and reboots I put it in another USB2 external
drive bay with no change, then I stuck it in a PC and the same problem.
If the BIOS can't see it then I can't recover anything so I guess I'm
done... unless somebody has another idea?
