Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 is not accepting any commands !

[Matiw]

I have an empty, working Seagate barracuda 7200.10 connected to a terminal for practice purpose. I have" F>" prompt but the terminal responds as invalide for all commands that I entered. When I try to change the levels using " /1" or other similar commands, the terminal shows error too. I have seen in this site that all discussions about terminals have" F3>" prompt, I do not know why I am getting the "F>". Could someone please give me a little push to the right dircetion.

Thanks.

[fzabkar]

http://malthus.zapto.org/download/file.php?id=443

[Matiw]

Thank you fzabkar.

Unfortunately for me, the first half of the document is in Russian and in PDF, which I do not understand and which I can not google-translate. Is there an English version of this document ?

http://malthus.zapto.org/download/file.php?id=443

[xsoliman]

Are you getting
F>
or
T>

Should be getting T>

If your getting F> it implies you are stuck at the firmware level (which only accepts a few commands eg ? )

and its surprising that the drive works at all (which you say it does)


and try R1 and R2
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[Matiw]

Thanks xsoliman.

When I connect to Terminal, the first thing that I get is F> not T>

Command R2

gives the following response:


HM HM HM...........Code - FF Track 155c E.0.1AA Sns 1AA

Are you getting
F>
or
T>

Should be getting T>

If your getting F> it implies you are stuck at the firmware level (which only accepts a few commands eg ? )

and its surprising that the drive works at all (which you say it does)


and try R1 and R2
from the end of viewtopic.php?f=1&t=27679&start=20

[mr_spokk]

If you getting F3 in promt on that drive you're not bad