Thanks Lubomír Cabla for those links.
I used to have personal notes somewhere that I had a drive
as low as 500G that required a firmware update.
That seems to be confirmed in the links below.
I flashed all mine proactively BEFORE they might have become bricks.
Seagate has a link buried on their
...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of Lubomír Cabla
Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 2010 4:07 AM
To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com
Subject: Re: [H] dead drive
1. ST31000340?AS w/ SD15 has firmware symptoms
http://forums.seagate.com/t5/Barracuda-XT-Barracuda-and/ST31000340AS-w-
SD15-has-firmware
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From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware-
boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of Winterlight
Sent: Friday, September 10, 2010 7:11 PM
To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com
Subject: [H] dead drive
I have a 18 month old 1TB Seagate HD that has apparently died
First of all is it spinning?
yes
If it is, does it click?
no
What's the model
number?
ST31000340AS you can see front and back here
www.winterlight.org/ST31000340AS.pdf
There can be so many things wrong with it, it's not funny.
my best guess is the controller
Some of the
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
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
To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com
Subject: [H] dead drive
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
Mark Dodge wrote:
stacked it in the corner with the rest of the dead ones. (don't know why I
keep em)
To get the cool, powerful magnets out of them?
al
10-4 on the ...cool, powerful magnets out of them?
I no longer have to search the kitchen for the grocery list any more!
But, getting the magnets off the reefer can be fun.
Good luck, Winterlight.
Duncan
On 09/11/2010 08:59, Al Anger wrote:
Mark Dodge wrote:
stacked it in the corner with
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
If I recall those were the early 1.5TB drives.
At 12:00 PM 9/11/2010, you wrote:
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
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
Hi,
If the drive is not showing up in the BIOS, but seems to be spinning,
you can try this:
Get an identical model/series drive (exact identical model and size),
and transplant the controller board from one drive to the other.
I have had this work on quite a number of drives that just would
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