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BGman
 Post subject: Strange ST3160813AS
PostPosted: June 22nd, 2009, 5:38 
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The drive is not recognized by BIOS (BUSY all the time), but the strange thing is that it does not show up in the terminal . Sometimes only a letter p appears and that is all.
I've got a good 320GB drive of the same family, so I checked the terminal setting - everything is fine. I checked the PCB by swapping the FLASH chips. The PCB is OK.

Any suggestions about the cause of this strange behaviour ?
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BlackST
 Post subject: Re: Strange ST3160813AS
PostPosted: June 22nd, 2009, 6:16 
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Bad mcu/ram or pcb ko. Check parts.
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BGman
 Post subject: Re: Strange ST3160813AS
PostPosted: June 22nd, 2009, 7:33 
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BlackST wrote:
Bad mcu/ram or pcb ko. Check parts.



What stands for "mcu/ram or pcb ko" ? :shock:

The PCB is working fine with the other (320GB) drive.
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Samo
 Post subject: Re: Strange ST3160813AS
PostPosted: June 25th, 2009, 3:27 
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Can you access F> ?
Also did you try the other pcb on "bad" drive?

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BGman
 Post subject: Re: Strange ST3160813AS
PostPosted: June 26th, 2009, 9:29 
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Samo wrote:
Can you access F> ?
Also did you try the other pcb on "bad" drive?


F> is not accessable with and without HDA.

The other pcb behave the same way as the native.

FW : CC2F
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fg2000
 Post subject: Re: Strange ST3160813AS
PostPosted: July 4th, 2009, 7:44 
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HI,
My 7200.11 has similar problem either, I can not get access to the HDD through the COM port.
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BGman
 Post subject: Re: Strange ST3160813AS
PostPosted: July 6th, 2009, 3:13 
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fg2000 wrote:
HI,
My 7200.11 has similar problem either, I can not get access to the HDD through the COM port.


What is the firmware revision of your drive?
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quasimodo
 Post subject: Re: Strange ST3160813AS
PostPosted: July 6th, 2009, 15:42 
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BGman wrote:
Samo wrote:
Can you access F> ?
Also did you try the other pcb on "bad" drive?


F> is not accessable with and without HDA.

The other pcb behave the same way as the native.

FW : CC2F



If I remember this drive can be short curcuited to force F> access. But you better get one of the Guru's to confirm this.
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quasimodo
 Post subject: Re: Strange ST3160813AS
PostPosted: July 6th, 2009, 15:43 
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fg2000 wrote:
HI,
My 7200.11 has similar problem either, I can not get access to the HDD through the COM port.


Your problem is mostlikley a different one. Do you use any professional tools?
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