Hello everybody.

I have a ST3500418AS which bios cannot see it anymore, so i've tried the same solution for the common errors on ST3500320 (before trying a firmware upgrade) , but still bios does not read. Here is what i do. Any solution , please?

Thank you

V1 :

User Slip Defect List
log log log phys phys
LBA span cumm cyl hd sctr zn cyl sctr SFI PBA
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0


Head 0: entries 1 slips 0
Head 1: entries 0 slips 0
Total Entries 1 Total Slips 0


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 3B6C0 0 FFFFFFFF 0

25CB4 394 394 0 1 0 1 39972 0 FFFFFFFF 26048

4B968 394 728 AA 0 0 2 3B76A 0 FFFFFFFF 4C090

7161C 394 ABC AA 1 0 3 39A1C 0 FFFFFFFF 720D8


Head 0: entries 2 slips 394
Head 1: entries 2 slips 728
Total Entries 4 Total Slips ABC


V3 :

User Slip Defect List
log log log phys phys
LBA span cumm cyl hd sctr zn cyl sctr SFI PBA
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0


Head 0: entries 1 slips 0
Head 1: entries 0 slips 0
Total Entries 1 Total Slips 0
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0


V4 :

Reassigned Sectors List
Entries: 0000, Retrieved: 0000, Alts: 0000, Removed: 0000, Pending: 0000, GList:
0000, RList: 0000

Idx LBA PBA LLLCHS of LBA PLPCHS of PBA SFI Hours Msecs S
tatus BBM Mask

Head 0: entries 1 slips 0
Head 1: entries 0 slips 0
Total Entries 1 Total Slips 0






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Head 0: entries 1 slips 0
Head 1: entries 0 slips 0
Total Entries 1 Total Slips 0

F3 T>V4

Reassigned Sectors List
Entries: 0000, Retrieved: 0000, Alts: 0000, Removed: 0000, Pending: 0000, GList:
0000, RList: 0000

Idx LBA PBA LLLCHS of LBA PLPCHS of PBA SFI Hours Msecs S
tatus BBM Mask

F3 T>/T

F3 T>m0,2,2,,,,,22
Max Wr Retries = 00, Max Rd Retries = 00, Max ECC T-Level = 16, Max Certify Rewr
ite Retries = not supported

User Partition Format Successful - Elapsed Time 0 mins 00 secs
Zone re-format was skipped.
F3 T>

Quindi , senza sapere cos'era il problema, hai dedotto che si poteva usare la "magica soluzione internet" ed e' stato fatto, ma non funziona lo stesso. Piu' un aggiornamento FW magari non andato a buon fine. Giusto ?

So, without proper diagnose, you applied the "magic internet fix" but doesn't work. Add a FW update that didn't work either, right ?