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Seagate Barracuda Fault Diagnosis - recording

October 20th, 2017, 18:49

Hello!

I have a 2TB Seagate Barracuda drive that took a small tumble off the table and hasn't worked since. PC or Mac just won't recognise it. Thinking it might be the SATA board, I removed it from its casing and plugged into a HD docking station, still no luck.

The drive spins up just fine but some odd noises occur. Here is a recording of the sounds it makes when starting up the drive in the dock. Maybe someone can diagnose the fault?

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-eqQx ... sp=sharing

Re: Seagate Barracuda Fault Diagnosis - recording

October 21st, 2017, 3:24

It sounds ok to me.

Can you provide terminal output?

What is the full model and part number of the drive?

Re: Seagate Barracuda Fault Diagnosis - recording

October 21st, 2017, 13:22

northwind wrote:It sounds ok to me.

Can you provide terminal output?

What is the full model and part number of the drive?


Hi, Thanks for checking out the recording!

It is a Seagate Barracuda, ST2000DM001(model no), 1E6164 - 570 (PN)

What exactly do you mean by terminal output? I typed in the command 'top' into the OSX terminal to get current processes and then activated the drive a couple of times - got the following. Still no acknowledgment at all from the mac, its as though nothing is there, though the drive spins up upon USB connection. Very odd.


Processes: 239 total, 4 running, 9 stuck, 226 sleeping, 1078 threads 18:19:27
Load Avg: 1.69, 1.71, 1.95 CPU usage: 10.2% user, 4.40% sys, 85.57% idle
SharedLibs: 134M resident, 23M data, 17M linkedit.
MemRegions: 36196 total, 1540M resident, 61M private, 400M shared.
PhysMem: 4409M used (1203M wired), 3781M unused.
VM: 658G vsize, 533M framework vsize, 808413(0) swapins, 890383(0) swapouts.
Networks: packets: 1154442/1461M in, 611060/56M out.
Disks: 163431/7870M read, 137552/7315M written.

PID COMMAND %CPU TIME #TH #WQ #PORT MEM PURG CMPRS PGRP PPID
2037 AddressBookS 0.0 00:00.02 5/1 3 49+ 1360K+ 0B 0B 2037 1
2033 syncdefaults 0.0 00:00.21 3 1 62 6832K 0B 0B 2033 1
2024 mdworker 0.0 00:00.14 4 0 48 8972K 0B 0B 2024 1
2017 top 1.9 00:11.10 1/1 0 24 2232K 0B 0B 2017 2009
2016 mdworker 0.0 00:00.13 4 0 49 8892K 0B 0B 2016 1
2015 mdworker 0.0 00:00.14 4 0 48 7868K 0B 0B 2015 1
2014 mdworker 0.0 00:00.12 4 0 48 6772K 0B 0B 2014 1
2009 bash 0.0 00:00.02 1 0 17 748K 0B 0B 2009 2008
2008 login 0.0 00:00.13 3 1 30 1236K 0B 0B 2008 2007
2007 Terminal 3.6 00:03.18 11 5 222+ 13M+ 8192B 0B 2007 1
2006 com.apple.Co 0.0 00:00.56 4 1 79 11M 0B 0B 2006 1
2004 com.apple.We 0.0 00:00.09 3 0 78 3224K 0B 0B 2004 1
2002 com.apple.Sa 0.0 00:00.09 2 0 41 6092K 0B 0B 2002 1
1998 spindump 0.0 00:00.02 2 1 37 1100K 0B 0B 1998 1
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