ST31000340AS failed

[professor_jonny]

I have a st31000340as drive and yesterday it stopped working.
the drive fails to show in bios up in bios but it is detected in device manager in windows and if I hot swap it in windows chimes with detection of the disk.

The hdd spins up and makes the correct noises from the actuator like it is working it is not clicking and then spinning down or any thing like that.

I was expecting to log in to the ttl interface and see a bsy error like the typical 7200.11 drive and clear the smart and it would be going again but this is not the case with this drive.

I read up on the Seagate docs and dumped some logs via the ttl interface to let me know what is the issue noting that head 2 has a lot more defects than the others and head 5 resistance is a bit left of field compared to the others.

I'm guessing the V10 command that I snipped the bottom off the log would indicate lots of defects and this drive needs pro repairs?

I'm in no way a pro but from my perspective of the logs the drive has lots of defects and is requires pro repairs

Code:

F3 T>V4
Reassigned Sectors List
Original     New    log log   log     phy   phy
    LBA      PBA    cyl  hd  sctr zn  cyl   sctr     SFI     hours     msec

         Alt   Pending  Total    Alted  Total
       Entries Entries Entries    Alts   Alts
Head 0              0
Head 1              0
Head 2              0
Head 3              0
Head 4              0
Head 5              0
Head 6              0
Head 7              0
Total        0      0       0        0      0
Total Alt Removals:    0
Checksum = 0000

F3 T>V1
User 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      0     0        4

Head 0: entries      1        slips        0
Head 1: entries      0        slips        0
Head 2: entries      0        slips        0
Head 3: entries      0        slips        0
Head 4: entries      0        slips        0
Head 5: entries      0        slips        0
Head 6: entries      0        slips        0
Head 7: entries      0        slips        0
  Total Entries      1  Total Slips        0

F3 T>/7

F3 7>X

Head 00 Resistance 00C4
Head 01 Resistance 00A0
Head 02 Resistance 00A7
Head 03 Resistance 00AA
Head 04 Resistance 009A
Head 05 Resistance 00E6
Head 06 Resistance 00BD
Head 07 Resistance 00B6

F3 7>

Code:

P List
  log   log    phy length
head   cyl    cyl in symb  SFI  flags
   5  26607  26607    B    5FE9C 80 scr fill
   2 FFFFFFFF  26815  801    6038E 80 scr fill
   2 FFFFFFFF  26847  801    3A911 80 scr fill
Head 0 Entries: 569
Head 1 Entries: 123
Head 2 Entries: 11BE
Head 3 Entries: 1E0
Head 4 Entries: 2A2
Head 5 Entries: 2E7
Head 6 Entries: 8D
Head 7 Entries: 110
  Total Entries: 2150


[labtech]

SMART attributes?

[professor_jonny]

when I reset the smart data to get past the busy error does that not wipe the tables?

as this is all I can get:

Code:

F3 T>/1

F3 1>N5
Att
Num  Flgs normlzd worst
0   0000    0      0
0   0000    0      0
0   0000    0      0
0   0000    0      0
0   0000    0      0
0   0000    0      0
0   0000    0      0
0   0000    0      0
0   0000    0      0
0   0000    0      0
0   0000    0      0
0   0000    0      0
0   0000    0      0
0   0000    0      0
0   0000    0      0
0   0000    0      0
0   0000    0      0
0   0000    0      0
0   0000    0      0
0   0000    0      0
0   0000    0      0
0   0000    0      0
0   0000    0      0
0   0000    0      0
0   0000    0      0
0   0000    0      0
0   0000    0      0
0   0000    0      0
0   0000    0      0
0   0000    0      0



[colanco]

F3 T>V1
User 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 0 0 4

Head 0: entries 1 slips 0
Head 1: entries 0 slips 0
Head 2: entries 0 slips 0
Head 3: entries 0 slips 0
Head 4: entries 0 slips 0
Head 5: entries 0 slips 0
Head 6: entries 0 slips 0
Head 7: entries 0 slips 0
Total Entries 1 Total Slips 0

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[professor_jonny]

Yip that's it, I can access drive data now thanks:

Code:

m0,6,3,,,,,22

[professor_jonny]

I have managed to dump everything off the drive so I'm quite happy

would this fault mean there is bad sectors in the translation tables or just in some way got corrupted? if so I guess that means get a new drive or is this something that is unfortunate?