st1000DM003 again !

[raven4d]

Greetings friends ,

this is now the third case i have , same model , same family , same symptoms

using ddi4 , drive ID ok , after 15 secs lag ..

log is :

Boot 0x40M
Spin Up
Trans.

Spin Up
SpinOK
TCC:0020

(P) SATA Reset

ASCII Diag mode


F3 T>
Family : LUXORLPLUS_2_0( 203)(FF-FF-FF-F
Admin : GPG17B.CCD4.AAAL00.CC47
Firmware : CC47
Speed : 7199 RPM
Head : 2
Capacity : 244923212 (125G)
S/N : Z1D4JRWD


F3 T>

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lists are


F3 T>V4
V4
Reassigned Sectors List Enabled
Entries: 0000, Alts: 0000, Removed: 4013,
Pending: 0000 Host Pending: 0000

Idx LBA PBA LLLCHS of LBA Wdg PLPCHS of PBA SFI Hours Msecs Status BBM Mask

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NRG list has 0 enteries
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F3 T>V2
System Slip Defect List
log log log phys phys
LBA span cumm cyl hd sctr zn cyl sctr SFI
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 380C2 0 FFFFFFFF 0
62B42 151BE 151BE 0 1 0 1 33E0B 0 FFFFFFFF 77D00
C5684 151BE 2A37C 1B0 0 0 2 38272 0 FFFFFFFF EFA00
1281C6 151BE 3F53A 1B0 1 0 3 33FBB 0 FFFFFFFF 167700


Head 0: entries 2 slips 151BE
Head 1: entries 2 slips 2A37C
Total Entries 4 Total Slips 3F53A

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while imaging , something wrong is obvious , drive images like 1000-1500 LBAs then power-reset as it will stuck and ddi will initiate this command ..

heads test fine ..

i cleared alt-list , and smart , and reconstructed the translator , same behaviour

could be platter damage ?

[MindMergepk]

i would say weak heads, can you show us the resistance of both heads ?

[raven4d]

Hi again ,

nop , heads resistance is extremly fine , i have seen more resistance value on the same family , with no reading/writing problems ..

seems like some list is overloaded , and causing this kind of slowliness , what do you think ?

[MindMergepk]

i still vote for weak head/s.
did you try selective head imaging and see which head can read fine throughout the surface. i can tell you from my experience on the same drive where both head test was fine even both heads can read fine from start LBA but after a certain LBA head 1 did't read well.
after head swap i was able to image the drive 100%.

[pcimage]

I had one last week that cloned fine up to about 71% then really really struggled, new heads and bingo! Imaged 99.9%