msurgeon wrote:
Unfortunately, not much sympathy is given to novices here. Mark it up to the arrogance of experts.
I don't suppose that so-called "experts" are arrogant, as much as they are really tired of seeing the results of attempts and interventions gone bad.
These Seagate drives seem to be prone to media damage; the service area is locked out, and they are a general PITA to work on.
We recently had a client with two 1 TB drives -- he thought he could just swap the platters and what a mess he made. He totally screwed himself (or his client) and unnecessarily so. When you see this every day, you become reluctant to give anything but answers that won't get someone in trouble.
Maybe working on this drive is a little like learning cardiac catheterization. If you learn under the direction of a doctor in the proper setting, the patient will probably be OK. If you go to the internet to learn how to do it, the patient is probably going to die from the procedure or a complication.
One of the things you have to be sure of is that the slider patterns of Seagate HSAs must match. If those match up, then you may have a firmware issue as the others pointed out. We haven't had much trouble with heads compatibility on this series, but we haven't done a lot of them (yet).
Oh yes. If you don't know what you are doing with the firmware, it's very easy to brick this drive with little hope or chance of subsequent recovery.
As Pepe said, this is a really bad model to start with.