A friend of mine came to me asking that I try and do what I can to recover the data from his hard drive. Fortunately he has backups, they aren't current, but he won't have a total loss if it fails. I'm not interested in making the drive work longer than it will take to recover whatever I can from it before it is assigned door-stop duty.
The drive appears to spin up normally, but is simply invisible on the SATA port. I've successfully connected to the TTL Serial using an arduino for conversion. I am now trying to figure out exactly what my next course of action should be. Although I have had experience with unbricking the 7200.10 era hardware, so don't feel totally out of my depth. I would rather play it safe and refer to people whom have a little more experience in case there is something simple I can do to get this drive functional enough to pull the data from the drive before sending it to the great raid array in the sky.
Details:
Seagate ST1000DM003
Firmware: CC44
PCB Rev: 100687658 REV C.
Here's what I've gotten just trying to spin down/up the drive.
Code:
Boot 0x40M
Spin Up
Trans.
Spin Up
SpinOK
RECOV Servo Op=0600 Resp=0005
RECOV Servo Op=0600 Resp=0005
(P) SATA Reset
ASCII Diag mode
F3 T>/2
F3 2>Z
Spin Down Complete
Elapsed Time 10.575 secs
F3 2>U
LED:000000EE FAddr:003E01FC
Rst 0x40M
LED:000000EE FAddr:003E01FC
LED:000000EE FAddr:003E01FC
LED:000000EE FAddr:003E01FC
LED:000000EE FAddr:003E01FC
LED:000000EE FAddr:003E01FC
LED:000000EE FAddr:003E01FC
LED:000000EE FAddr:003E01FC
LED:000000EE FAddr:003E01FC
LED:000000EE FAddr:003E01FC
LED:000000EE FAddr:003E01FC
LED:000000EE FAddr:003E01FC
LED:000000EE FAddr:003E01FC
LED:000000EE FAddr:003E01FC
LED:000000EE FAddr:003E01FC
LED:000000EE FAddr:003E01FC
LED:000000EE FAddr:003E01FC
LED:000000EE FAddr:003E01FC
LED:000000EE FAddr:003E01FC
LED:000000EE FAddr:003E01FC
LED:000000EE FAddr:003E01FC
LED:000000EE FAddr:003E01FC
LED:000000EE FAddr:003E01FC
LED:000000EE FAddr:003E01FC
LED:000000EE FAddr:003E01FC
LED:000000EE FAddr:003E01FC
LED:000000EE FAddr:003E01FC
LED:000000EE FAddr:003E01FC
LED:000000EE FAddr:003E01FC
LED:000000EE FAddr:003E01FC
LED:000000EE FAddr:003E01FC
LED:000000EE FAddr:003E01FC
LED:000000EE FAddr:003E01FC
I've gotten some other logs, but to avoid splattering my logs all over the page and making it unreadable, I've attached them to this in a text file. I'll noted there appears to be plenty of drive slips in there, but I'm hoping that they are simply a sign the drive needs to be replaced rather than a cause for the drive to have failed like this.