Seagate Cuda ES.2 500gb not firmware ? mac user

[roybatty]

hallo all -
new to the site outta necessity - and a mac user ..

barracude ES.2 500gb s/n 9QM0FX7T ST3500320NS - Seagate tells me this is not a firmware issue as shipped 26 Dec '07 after firmware fix in house -
drive worked great for 1.5 years - next day would no longer boot or recognize - have some data would like to try to recover myself as low on scratch

HD spins in 2 different computers as well as hard case - just does not recognize or boot

peeked about on site but have not seen anyone talking about recovery using a Mac
anyone have some wisdom to share ?

cheers in advance

[dobrevjetser]

Search for terminal report on seagates.
Post here what you get in the terminal, then we'll have a better idea.

[roybatty]

say dobrevjester:

cheers for the reply ;

Do you mean to say try an communicate with the HD thru a terminal window ?

if so - i gotta figure this action out

cheers:

[dobrevjetser]

Correct. Its allready explained several times in this forum.
Use search function.

Dobre

[fzabkar]

For information on how to obtain a terminal report, see the following thread:
http://forums.seagate.com/t5/ATA-and-Se ... 036#M19464

The ES.2 drives that are affected by the BSY bug will respond to the abovementioned 7200.11 DIY fix, but with a slight twist:
http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/129551- ... 0cc-state/

To communicate with the drive via its serial port, you need the Mac equivalent of a terminal utility such as HyperTerminal or PUTTY.