I've got two Seagates, and one got somehow hung up and everything had
to be rebooted during a format. It was a working, though blank,
Windows formatted drive prior to this minor peccadillo.
I have fiddled with a half a dozen formatters and SCSI prying
programs and sent the error messages to Seagate tech support.
Seagate tech support says:
<<
the 03/31 sense code indicates a corrupted format. The drive can't read
its own handwriting. It happens, and the solution is a low-level format.
Now it gets a bit more complicated. The drive showing no capacity, along
with the 03/31 is the symptom you get when a drive is being low-level
formatted and is interrupted before it completes. there is a field that
is filled in at the end of the format that shows the last logical block
address available on the drive. This is the field that is used in the
read capacity command, and the field that is used by the controller to
assign a translation to the drive. Needless to say, if the format is
interrupted, this field does not get filled in.
The end result is typically that since the controller cannot see a
capacity, it will not start a low-level format from its bios. Dead in the
water.
The only fix I am aware of is the SeaTools Enterprise Edition utility on
our website (which is windows or Linux compatible, nothing for the Mac)
has a format utility that was specifically designed to overcome this, and
will force the low level format.
Bottom line, you might have to degrade yourself to accessing a windows
system to successfully low level format the drive.
>>
Question: will Hard Disk Toolkit allow me to force such a format? I
have HDT 1.-something which I haven't used in many years and have to
dig the diskettes out from some bin. I doubt 1.x will do this (but I
don't know for sure).
Next question: any other suggestions?
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