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Re: Seagate 7200.12 - need help with diagnosis and/or fix

April 2nd, 2016, 8:23

This is a P-List error.

Re: Seagate 7200.12 - need help with diagnosis and/or fix

March 13th, 2017, 13:33

I have a ST31000524AS with similar issues. It gives a few soft clicks on startup along with some other normal noises then stays spinning. Initially it would not identify at all, but the terminal output showed nothing unusual. Ctrl z would get to F3 T> without any shorting required.

After reading through this thread, I checked the non resident G list using the V40 command and it returned there was no entries present. So I regenerated the translator using m0,2,2,,,,,22, then cleared smart.

The drive will now identify itself and show the correct number of sectors, but otherwise stays bsy. Also I then connected it back to terminal, and checked V40 again, and there was about 20 entries. Not sure how that could have happened but I am 100% sure it said there were no entries before the translator regen.

Is there anything else that can be tried from here?

Re: Seagate 7200.12 - need help with diagnosis and/or fix

March 15th, 2017, 13:29

What are you trying to do? repair drive?

Re: Seagate 7200.12 - need help with diagnosis and/or fix

March 17th, 2017, 23:59

The data isn't critical, but it would be nice to recover it.
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