Tim,
Thanks for your share. Last month I read about this "serial-to-disk"
interface business on Seagate HD's. I was completely blown away by all
of the anecdotal user shares trying to build this very special "cable"
and then get it to work between the PC and the suspect HD.
For several days I thought about this. Yes, this is the HWG and I know
"we" will play with it. Then I re-scanned the shares and noticed that
all of the "potentials" for this (and everyone agreed!) extreme "fix"
procedure, were using HD's of 1.0TB, 1.5TB, or 2.0TB.
Lamely, I agreed with myself the >500GB SATA HD's were not in my
immediate future! I do suspect that the 1.0TB HD is going to become a
future default. I can wait. Meanwhile, I suspect that you will be a
very busy fellow!
Best,
Duncan
On 09/13/2010 15:54, Tim Lider wrote:
Hello,
First of all is it spinning?
yes
That's a good thing.
If it is, does it click?
no
That's a good thing as well.
What's the model
number?
ST31000340AS you can see front and back here
www.winterlight.org/ST31000340AS.pdf
It is a F3 style Seagate HD. This makes a bit easier.
There can be so many things wrong with it, it's not funny.
my best guess is the controller
Some of the fixes
that were posted do work, but do these at your own risk. If you fail
you only make it harder for a professional to recover your data.
This is mostly 70 plus percent backup of my DVDs so I am not doing any
data recovery.
If the drive is a 7200.10 then the Firmware fix will not work.
I don't see how I could load the firmware anyway if no computer BIOS
will see and mount the drive.
If the HD does not mount you need to connect the drive via HyperTerminal via
the Serial connector of the drive. This way you can fix the drive. But, if
you have no way of connecting the drive to a RS-232 connector you will not
be able to fix it.
Look for HHD Lock problem with Seagate HD's. There are a lot of fixes on
the internet for it. Beware it can make the drive worse as well.
Good luck,
