HTS545016B9A300 DRDY ERR (BUSY)

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G'day, having issues accessing anything on this drive. Tried MHDD - the very first block is reported as UNC, then scanning continues and a few more UNCs until something LBA 131K. At that spot scanning halts indefinitely and the drive goes into perm BUSY state: RESET/RECALL (init) has no effect. The only thing that helps is cycling power to the drive. Scanning with the "remap" option enabled causes the same outcome (won't even make it through the first block, goes perm BUSY). Tried the seek test (CX): seeks (audible) for about 30 secs, while reporting stats, but fails in the end spewing an error. Tried the "FF" option to overwrite the UNCs up until the problematic LBA - reported success and seems to return, but drive stays in perm BUSY. Can hardly boot a live linux system - throws tons of DRDY ERR-s (READ DMA err) and almost never returns (throws them in an endless loop, can get a command through every half a minute or so). Details below.

Hitachi HTS545016B9A300; FW: PBBOC60F

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            Name                        Val Worst Raw
Att #   1 : Read error rate           :  84   84  24051712 
Att #   2 : Throughput performance    : 100  100  0 
Att #   3 : Spin up time              : 212  212  1 
Att #   4 : Number of spin-up times   : 100  100  487 
Att #   5 : Reallocated sectors count : 100  100  0 
Att #   7 : Seek error rate           : 100  100  0 
Att #   8 : Seek time performance     : 100  100  0 
Att #   9 : Power-on time             :  98   98  1131 
Att #  10 : Spin-up retries           : 100  100  0 
Att #  12 : Start/stop count          : 100  100  486 
Att # 191 : Unknown                   : 100  100  0 
Att # 192 : Power-off retract count   : 100  100  70 
Att # 193 : Load/unload cycle count   :  98   98  28857 
Att # 194 : HDA Temperature           : 250  250  22 
Att # 196 : Reallocate event count    : 100  100  7 
Att # 197 : Current pending sectors   : 100  100  14 
Att # 198 : Offline scan UNC sectors  : 100  100  0 
Att # 199 : Ultra ATA CRC Error Rate  : 200  200  0 
Att # 223 : Load retry count          : 100  100  0 


Would really appreciate some thoughts / suggestions on this.

[labtech]

Professional help time?

[harddrivespecialist]

Head/s can't read properly.