Heya all. Got this 3Tb ST3000DM001-1CH166 grenada fw cc46 hard drive that spun up normal , heads sound perfect, comes ready but raises busy on ID attempt ( It released busy if you give the drive enough time , in my case about 5-6 minutes ) . All sorts of different shit in the terminal , from normal spin up stuff like
Boot 0x40M
Spin Up
Trans.

Spin Up
SpinOK
(P) SATA Reset

RAW OFF
PASS
MCMainPOR: Start:
User Data Base 0043E3B8
Check MCMT Version: Current
MCMainPOR: MCTStateFlags 0000000A MCStateFlags 00020001
MC061: MainPOR: MC off and MCMT empty
MC057: MainPOR: EXCEPTION: POR Failed General Tms 00000040
MC062: MainPOR: Feature Disabled...
MSP MainPOR: Feature Disabled by AMPS
6Gb Max Speed lowered to 3Gb for Intel bug
Send Status: COMRESET seen


( Keep in mind at that point i disabled some hdd features , so log shows that )


To weird stuff like

(DOS) NEED: 0x000DE79DA1-000DE79F08 - 0x000717DF-000717DF Count 2700
(DOS) Refresh Start.
(DOS) Marginal Read: 000DE79DB5
(DOS) Marginal Read: 000DE79DBE
(DOS) Marginal Read: 000DE79DCA
(DOS) Marginal Read: 000DE79DD6
(DOS) Marginal Read: 000DE79DE0
(DOS) Marginal Read: 000DE79DF8
(DOS) Marginal Read: 000DE79DFA
(DOS) Marginal Read: 000DE79E1F
(DOS) Marginal Read: 000DE79E21
(DOS) Marginal Read: 000DE79E2E
(DOS) Marginal Read: 000DE79E31
WTR: Outer Timer Expired
(DOS)ABT
(DOS) File Save

(DOS) NEED: 0x000DE79E49-000DE79F08 - 0x000717DF-000717DF Count 4500
(DOS) Refresh Start.
(DOS) Marginal Read: 000DE79E71
(DOS) Marginal Read: 000DE79E79
(DOS) Marginal Read: 000DE79E7A
(DOS) Marginal Read: 000DE79E7D
(DOS) Marginal Read: 000DE79E7E
(DOS) Marginal Read: 000DE79E7F

Or even


(DOS)CMP Count 3780
(DOS) NEED: 0x000DE79C39-000DE79DA0 - 0x000717DE-000717DE Count 2400
(DOS) Refresh Start.
WTR: Outer Timer Expired
(DOS)ABT
(DOS) NEED: 0x000DE79CD7-000DE79DA0 - 0x000717DE-000717DE Count 3600
(DOS) Refresh Start.
WTR: Outer Timer Expired
(DOS)CMP Count 4300
(DOS) NEED: 0x000DE79261-000DE793C8 - 0x000717D7-000717D7 Count 23E0
(DOS)CMP Count 23E0
(DOS) NEED: 0x000DE79DA1-000DE79F08 - 0x000717DF-000717DF Count 4780
(DOS)ABT
(DOS) NEED: 0x000DE79DA8-000DE79F08 - 0x000717DF-000717DF Count 4780
(DOS) Refresh Start.
WTR: Outer Timer Expired
(DOS)ABT
(DOS) NEED: 0x000DE79E49-000DE79F08 - 0x000717DF-000717DF Count 6500
(DOS) Refresh Start.
WTR: Outer Timer Expired
(DOS)CMP Count 7600
(DOS) NEED: 0x000DE733D3-000DE7353A - 0x000717C2-000717C2 Count 20F0
(DOS)CMP Count 20F0
(DOS) NEED: 0x000DE73ADB-000DE73C42 - 0x000717C7-000717C7 Count 20F0
(DOS)CMP Count 20F0
(DOS) NEED: 0x000DE793C9-000DE79698 - 0x000717D8-000717D9 Count 2440
(DOS)CMP Count 2440
(DOS) NEED: 0x000DE79AD1-000DE79C38 - 0x000717DD-000717DD Count 2AA0
(DOS)ABT
(DOS) NEED: 0x000DE79AFA-000DE79C38 - 0x000717DD-000717DD Count 2AA0
(DOS) Refresh Start.
WTR: Outer Timer Expired
(DOS)ABT
(DOS) NEED: 0x000DE79B86-000DE79C38 - 0x000717DD-000717DD Count 3E80


Sometimes drive would ID with gibberish as a model capacity FW and the like , sometimes it would ID proper. CTR Z would not bring terminal unless you spam it during a startup. ( akin to read / write channel noise i imagine , get the command before drive starts pleasuring itself =) )
When drive ID with gibberish i would exit utility and reenter without re powering the drive. several tries and it gave proper passport.


This case reminded me of .10s with pending issue , so i tried treating it as such. The edit HD ID function did not work most time , claiming response timeout , but if you try at the right time ( immediately after the drive finally gave proper ID in my case ) it will work. 1st time edit HDD ID got through i enabled add terminal commands and disable reallocation and all that little housekeeping stuff. That did not work. Drive behaved same. On a whim next time i got through i put a check mark on disable IDLE activities ( or smth along those lines ). Drive re powered and is imaging fine now. ( about 15% in ) terminal from time to time reports UNCs. After the image is complete ill re enable the IDLE to make sure that was the saving move.

PS standard USB PC3K terminal adapter did not work ( press CTR Z it types a 9 ) . Had to use the terminal adapter 2.

This worked in my case and since many different things go bump in seagate drives - no guarantee it will work with urs.
Gl

I have a similar problem.
Disabling Relocation in PC3K does not help
Any suggestion experts ?

Hello,

This is Media Cash problem, you can try to clean it.