General (and not general)Seagate questions - for everyone :)

[N.C.]

Hi
Try to press "." several times to see if it's doing something or not....As far as I know this is a long test but 24 hour(for 2 heads) is too long...something is wrong there...
And are you sure that after test 40 comes test 41?...look in log 4e to see the test sequence...

Rgds

Hello,

I have tried:

T>E4e
No log 4E on disk
T>

Not luck.

Thanks anyway!

Somebody have any suggestion?

Thanks,
Janos

[N.C.]

I had a very little time, and done some steps...
The selfscan is done (i have found the next step, it was the 31 after the 40).

But now this is what i can see:

Interface task reset
4096k x 16 buffer detected
PUMA - 1_Disk M-22d 11-11-04 10:47
Head Mask FFFF - Switch to full int.
Spin Ready
3.43 01-26-05 16:23
(P)(H)SATA Reset
Not Interface Age!
VALID Cert Disk Code Detected - Revision # .083
Cert Table loaded

T>N50,,22
T>
(power cycle)
Interface task reset
4096k x 16 buffer detected
PUMA - 1_Disk M-22d 11-11-04 10:47
Head Mask FFFF - Switch to full int.
Spin Ready
3.43 01-26-05 16:23
(P)(H)SATA Reset
OVERLAY FAILED
T>

Somebody have any suggestion, where to start?

Thanks,
Janos

[pninja]

I have already pointed out what seems to be ignored : commercial available tools , on which the majority of repair shops and DR rely on, are only tools to access the SA or firmware zone, driven by human beings. We have to use our logic skill / capabilities, unless it is a simple, "clickable" solution.
What's worst, the more I go further researching and experimenting, the more I can do without those expensive tools. The DR is moving to phisycal, hands-on-drive level, and if you really want to do magic, if you know sufficiently how things work, you can write down your own tools even in Turbo Pascal (maybe forgetting GUI but who cares ?). Enough said.

Agree

[ccc]

To N.C.
You need to rewrite ATA overlay(track) from an identical model/fw.
Rgds

[N.C.]

To N.C.
You need to rewrite ATA overlay(track) from an identical model/fw.
Rgds

Thank you!

I have the backup of this drive.
Can I use this ATA module?

Janos

[ccc]

Of course you can....
Rgds

[N.C.]

Now i have a little time, and was played a little more.
I have uploaded own ATA overlay.
After the next restart, the drive sad:
Stuff Was Unreadable
T>

And now what?

Thanks
J

[ccc]

Hi
There are many ways to resolve this:
You can rewrite sect 4 of vendor track from an identical model or from his own track saved before ss,
or in T you can type F and as response type ASCIFE - that will reset STUFF to defaults;after that you must input the corect parameters for STUFF...

Rgds

[N.C.]

Hi
There are many ways to resolve this:
You can rewrite sect 4 of vendor track from an identical model or from his own track saved before ss,
or in T you can type F and as response type ASCIFE - that will reset STUFF to defaults;after that you must input the corect parameters for STUFF...

Rgds

If the modules not have the sect. 4 than i have not saved this before ss.
If i select the T> F, what do i need to input?

Thanks,
Janos

[rameez]

T>F
Setstuff>ASCIFE

[N.C.]

Thanks my friends,

This works, but i still have problems.
The drive comes up to ready now, but shows strange ID and LBA.
I have fixed this with SD seagate, but the drive have some unreadable sectors.
Now i have started the security fasterase from MHDD, but the terminal shows there are bads on the disk.

Thanks,

[quasimodo]

Janos,

after clearing the STUFF did you add the values back?

[N.C.]

Janos,

after clearing the STUFF did you add the values back?

No.

The ASCIFE sets to the default, and than i power cycled the hdd.
On the startup, it starts to rebuild the smart sectors, and gets ready with strange ID sting and about 210GB LBA capacity. (80GB drive)

Janos

[ccc]

Like I said, after reseting STUFF, you must correct the values according to the drive model, lba , max lba, etc....
Rgds

[N.C.]

Like I said, after reseting STUFF, you must correct the values according to the drive model, lba , max lba, etc....
Rgds

If i am right, this is what i have done with the Seagate doctor...
I have set the LBA value and drive ID.
no?

J

[ccc]

OK...Did you verifyed ,with mhdd for ex., if now the values for model, lba, are ok?....If they are ok, try to remap those bad sectors with mhdd or victoria or any ather program.
Rgds

[N.C.]

Hi
There are many ways to resolve this:
You can rewrite sect 4 of vendor track from an identical model or from his own track saved before ss,
or in T you can type F and as response type ASCIFE - that will reset STUFF to defaults;after that you must input the corect parameters for STUFF...

Rgds

Hello,

Now i have another drive after SS.
The ATA upload is done, but i have another problem:

Interface task reset
4096k x 16 buffer detected
APLUS - 1_Disk S.07 08-16-04 10:34
Head Mask FFFF - Switch to full int.
Spin Ready
3.01 08-16-04 10:35
(P)PATA Reset

Stuff Was Unreadable
T>F
SetStuff->ASCIFE
Setting stuff to defaults
Unsupported drive type 0x f2

@ this point, the typing is disappear, and i can only exit from this command.

Any suggestion?

Thanks,
Janos

[ccc]

Hi
Try to set drive type ...T>Y command
Rgds

[N.C.]

Hi
Try to set drive type ...T>Y command
Rgds

I have seen from the doc, the Y command resets the defect lists and all calibrations...
I need to repeat the 3 day ss?

Thanks,
Janos

[ccc]

Also try to look at this post:
7200-stuff-mess-t12153.html#p79225
It may help you....Or try to rewrite the 4 sector of vendor track...
Rgds