St3500418AS CC38 - failed head ?

[laptokowiec]

After powering it clicks slightly few times (7-8) and spins down.
In terminal, after ctr+z and any command it shows:
LED: 000000CE FAddr: 0029DB13

Sometimes theres CC.
I think it's head failure. How probable is it ?

[pclab]

Does it stop or is it always showing that?

[laptokowiec]

Sometimes it's :
No HOST FIS-ReadyStatusFlags 2002B001
and nothing happens

When started with hsa disconnected , then motor stop, hsa connected and motor start (few clicks)
after F3 1>N1

Failed to load overlay 00000004

[Nick_CT]

I would change heads as a next step.

[BGman]

I would change heads as a next step.

And trash the drive after that!

[laptokowiec]

Do you mean it's not the head ?

[BGman]

I mean that the next step after changing heads is to trash the drive.
Don't fool yourself, changing heads is not a piece of cake...

[laptokowiec]

I've done it many times so it's not a problem.
The problem is i'm not 100% sure it's the head.

[laptokowiec]

Does anyone know how similar (the same ?) case 7200-t21778.html#p145930
was solved ?

[laptokowiec]

It's not the head. Any ideas ?

[laptokowiec]

Maybe it's the head.
The ones we've used were much older.

[BlackST]

As an overlay cannot be loaded at startup, did you try make the drive boot EXTERNALLY (i.e. loader with PC3000 or other tool) ?

I would have checked the SA before assuming it's heads (one bad block in SA) or try the dirty tricks. HS is one of the latest resorts.

[laptokowiec]

Unfortunately we don't have access to tools that supports 7200.12

[SAjunky]

Unfortunately we don't have access to tools that supports 7200.12

I see on Russian sites that people use ST-MEM also with 12th.