Seagate 7200.11 Firmware issue: HP24 Firmware

[mingyue]

My hard drive stopped working a month ago, and I finally get the hyperterminal working, but after first two command:
F3 t>/2
F3 t>z
it shows following and I can not move any further,

LED:000000CC FAddr:00259E1D

I have tried to seach on the web for the code but seems nobody ever had the same code before.

Any one out there could help ??

Thanks

[pcimage]

There is something wrong with that terminal input and response.

If you want your data, I advise you to stop what your are doing and consult a pro, before you brick the drive.

If you don't care for the data, then carry on playing by all means.

[fzabkar]

My hard drive stopped working a month ago, and I finally get the hyperterminal working, but after first two command:
F3 t>/2
F3 t>z
it shows following and I can not move any further,

LED:000000CC FAddr:00259E1D

I have tried to seach on the web for the code but seems nobody ever had the same code before.

Any one out there could help ??

Thanks

WARNING: Pay attention to uppercase and lowercase when typing terminal commands.

Here are repair procedures for Seagate 7200.11 drives:

http://sites.google.com/site/seagatefix/

http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=128807

Tutorial with photos:

http://www.overclock.net/hard-drives-st ... -pics.html

Pinout of Nokia CA-42 cable's Pop-port connector (use pins 6,7,8):

http://pinouts.ru/CellularPhones-Nokia/ ... nout.shtml

See the following technical bulletin:

http://atulchitnis.net/files/seagate.pdf

Seagate were at one time offering free data recovery services to those customers whose drives were affected by the bug. This may still be the case.

[scratchy]

Seagate were at one time offering free data recovery services to those customers whose drives were affected by the bug. This may still be the case.

I may be wrong - I think that the free recovery was for hard disks that got bricked when the firmware update was applied to certain drives - I think it was only the 500 Gb version of 7200.11 that the firmware update actually made worse.. So seagate offered free data recovery on these drives - is that right Doomer ?

[fzabkar]

Seagate were at one time offering free data recovery services to those customers whose drives were affected by the bug. This may still be the case.

I may be wrong - I think that the free recovery was for hard disks that got bricked when the firmware update was applied to certain drives - I think it was only the 500 Gb version of 7200.11 that the firmware update actually made worse.. So seagate offered free data recovery on these drives - is that right Doomer ?

Yes, you are wrong. :-)

Free recovery also applied to drives bricked by the original bug, not just the buggy bugfix.

The policy is well documented in Seagate's forums and/or knowledge base.

[pcimage]

AFAIK, the free recovery doesn't apply to OEM drives, which I believe make up 90%+ of the affected drives out there.

[HDD Spaz]

which is good for us.

[mingyue]

Thanks fzabkar

It is case sensitive. I now got my hard drive life back.