Another Seagate ST2000DL001 busy

[gulliver]

I have a Seagate ST2000DL001 which stopped being detected in BIOS but spins and sounds 100% normal.
The disk reports the following on terminal:

Rst 0x20M
RW: Disc Ctlr Initialization Completed.
(P) SATA Reset
ASCII Diag mode

LED: 000000CC FAddr: 00000099
...

If I press quickly CTRL+Z before all the above appears I get to:
F3 T>

but I havent tried the solution for the 7200.11 as I believe mine is a 7200.12 HDD.

Do you have something to suggest on this one?

Thank you in advance!

[xsoliman]

Those people who know the full solution for 7200.12 have chosen not to disclose it
(or whether it can be done solely from the terminal)

Suggest you record your non-resident g-list info with
F3 T>V40

although how you add it back if you loose it is unknown

On my experimental ST2000DL001 7200.12 where I have done the 7200.11 techniques and lost the non-resident g-list
I was bale to somehow get it back
(see viewtopic.php?f=1&t=19275

but I'm still having not-ready issues [but then it was doing that before my messing around]

[gulliver]

Thank you xsoliman for your help and wisdom. Thats what I believe too after looking around!
I finally did the SMART clear:
F3 1>N1
and unfortunately that too:
F3 1>/T
F3 T>i4,1,22
which should be for 7200.11 and not 7200.12 which is mine.

I also run
F3 T>m0,2,2,,,,,22
which responded
User Partition Format Successful

and now the drive gets detected in BIOS with correct size and sector size but if I try to access it with data recovery tools, it only works for a little time varied from 10sec to 2 minutes.
If I scan it for bad sectors with HDD Regenerator it starts to detect bad sectors after 200something MBytes and does not stop for about 1000 sectors without 1 single good sector so I believe this has to do with the line above (HDD stops responding) so I quit the scan.

I still have terminal access. Do you know if you can help me with this one? Hasn't anyone found a solution that wants to share or suggest?

[hddguy]

it starts to detect bad sectors after 200something MBytes and does not stop for about 1000 sectors without 1 single good sector

Suggest you record your non-resident g-list info with
F3 T>V40

Did you do this as suggested?

[jignesh]

Thank you xsoliman for your help and wisdom. Thats what I believe too after looking around!
I finally did the SMART clear:
F3 1>N1
and unfortunately that too:
F3 1>/T
F3 T>i4,1,22
which should be for 7200.11 and not 7200.12 which is mine.

I also run
F3 T>m0,2,2,,,,,22
which responded
User Partition Format Successful

and now the drive gets detected in BIOS with correct size and sector size but if I try to access it with data recovery tools, it only works for a little time varied from 10sec to 2 minutes.
If I scan it for bad sectors with HDD Regenerator it starts to detect bad sectors after 200something MBytes and does not stop for about 1000 sectors without 1 single good sector so I believe this has to do with the line above (HDD stops responding) so I quit the scan.

I still have terminal access. Do you know if you can help me with this one? Hasn't anyone found a solution that wants to share or suggest?

Dear Friend guliver

u made big mistaq to handle this case as seagate 7200.11 case. ur drive is stucked in partial sector accesibility problem and in udma says it Translator broken problem. if u have correct tool u have good chance to solve this issue.
u can solve this problems menualy too but its need very high experiance and knoledge.

sorry for my bad english

yours friend
jignesh pankhania

[gulliver]

Suggest you record your non-resident g-list info with
F3 T>V40

Did you do this as suggested?

Yes, and it does return 5F records which I kept. Can I do something with that?
In the provided link I read that someone else got 0 records.

[xsoliman]

What does V40 show at the moment
It might have come back (it did for me)

[xsoliman]

There are also some 'self test' scripts in level 6

I'm still investigating these

B10
to
B22

My problematic drive 'passes' all except 11,12,13

Scanning sectors at the SATA level (with Victoria etc) is showing some UNCR and timeout sectors etc
but I haven't done a full scan yet
and doubt that it will get more than 3-6% through the drive

[gulliver]

Here is the V40 outcome. It was actually 5B :

Code:

F3 T>V40
Nonresident GList                   5B entries returned
Total entries available: 5B
      PBA      Len  Flags  Phy Cyl Hd  PhySctr    SFI
       12872     2     20       BC  1      2    69D7B
       12878     4     20       BC  1      8    6E8CD
       1287D    14     20       BC  1      D    727A8
       12894     1     20       BC  1     24    84876
       139C1     2     20       B1  1    155    6A9A1
       13DAE     1     20       AE  1     E6    6A5E2
       13DB8     2     20       AE  1     F0    72398
       13EFD     2     20       AD  1     C1    6A4B8
       13F08     2     20       AD  1     CC    72EE5
       141A7     1     20       AB  1     83    73908
       1443A     2     20       A9  1     2E    6AC8A
       14855     2     20       A7  1    161    71B31
       14C39     2     20       A4  1     E9    6A677
       14C45     1     20       A4  1     F5    73D1B
       17D17     2     20       82  1     5F    6B005
       17E65     1     20       81  1     39    6A267
       17E71     2     20       81  1     45    73908
       17FBF     3     20       80  1     1F    72B67
       18516     1     20       7D  1    11A    6AA36
       18520     1     20       7D  1    124    727A8
       18666     1     20       7C  1     F6    6B586
       1866F     3     20       7C  1     FF    7267E
       187B3     2     20       7B  1     CF    69B2A
       187BF     2     20       7B  1     DB    731CB
       18CF0     2     20       77  1     3C    6A2FC
       19251     2     20       74  1    141    69F3A
       1D1C7     1     20       48  1     C7    74CBC
       28567     1     20       37  2     6B   10C8B8
       2B8C7     1     20       5D  2     BB   10D27D
       5248E     1     20       76  4    16A    CE9B7
       883A9     1     20      102  4      9   12728D
       8A032     2     20       F0  4    14A    B1465
      15F177     1     20      277  4     AB    7F796
      15F9CD     1     20      272  4    16D    7E325
      3E3360     1     20      6DA  4    120    7F69C
      47D621     1     20      80B  4    149    7D27B
     11C8C05     1     20     1FD6  4    181    C4D91
     11C901C     1     20     1FD9  4    10C    C3B31
     11C9611     1     20     1FDD  4     F1   1274F2
     11C984C     1     20     1FDF  4     24    C2EE3
     11C9B2E     1     20     1FE0  4    182    C33A6
     11CA307     1     20     1FE6  4     43    7E3D3
     11CAB5E     1     20     1FEB  4    106    7DC25
     11CB068     1     20     1FEF  4      0    29131
     11CB3D3     1     20     1FF1  4     63    B31CC
     11CB5C5     1     20     1FF2  4     D1   127969
     11CDD50     1     20     200C  4     F4    C2FBB
     11CE111     1     20     200F  4     29    7E615
     11CE168     1     20     200F  4     80    C29D9
     11CEEDE     1     20     2018  4     52    7DEA7
     11CF19A     1     20     201A  4      6    7EB42
     11D01DC     1     20     2024  4    120    290A6
     11D1B02     1     20     2035  4     82    7E1C1
     11D1C60     1     20     2036  4     5C    7E82E
     11D2772     1     20     203D  4     D2    7E09D
     11D3C13     1     20     204B  4     3B    7DFEE
     11D3CE9     1     20     204B  4    111   125D66
     11D4E51     1     20     2057  4     49    C2F4C
     11D4F7D     1     20     2057  4    175    7DD66
     11D5EA8     1     20     2061  4    178    7DC6B
     11D6163     1     20     2063  4    12B    7DC8E
     11D641E     1     20     2065  4     DE    7DCB1
     11D650D     1     20     2066  4     49    271F8
     11D65BF     1     20     2066  4     FB    B2BA5
     11D7A1D     1     20     2074  4     21    7E22A
     11D8275     1     20     2079  4     E5    7E733
     11D8948     1     20     207E  4     24    7E12F
     11D8DB9     1     20     2081  4      9    C37FB
     11D9353     1     20     2084  4    117    C1734
     11DA9DF     1     20     2093  4     E7   13060B
     11FEB38     1     20     214A  4     38   1303CF
     11FEC8A     1     20     2149  4      6   127388
     11FFA11     1     20     2141  4    16D    D18C9
     11FFB5C     1     20     2140  4    134    C30B6
     12001E0     1     20     213B  4     24    84B7D
     12012B9     1     20     2130  4     51    C3CE1
     12015F2     1     20     212E  4     82   126A07
     12033CA     1     20     211A  4      A    C3AC9
     1203860     2     20     2117  4     14   1261E4
     4FDF90C     1     20     9AFB  0     58    861BA
     B5E2AA0     1     20    1650A  3    126     E8C0
     B66940C     1     20    16E6E  0     83    11C68
     B66E1B3     1     20    16E32  0     96    1451C
     B66E65C     1     20    16E2E  0     13    14A59
     B6B57AD     4     20    15F30  4     15   102751
     B6B5827     1     20    15F30  4     8F    53A81
     B7B1E05     5     20    161EC  4    136     1D74
     B7B22CA     1     20    161E8  4     9F   105517
     B7B23FF     1     20    161E7  4     7D   105665
     BDE7E0C     1     20    18554  2     90    12EE6
     E8B492A     1     20    1D30F  3     5C    BCEFD

Does this mean that it was not erased?

[laptokowiec]

"If I scan it for bad sectors with HDD Regenerator it starts to detect bad sectors after 200something MBytes and does not stop for about 1000 sectors without 1 single good sector so I believe this has to do with the line above (HDD stops responding) so I quit the scan".

So only first 200MB is accessible ?
If yes, it looks like Partial Sector Accessabilty Problem
http://malthus.zapto.org/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=185

[gulliver]

"If I scan it for bad sectors with HDD Regenerator it starts to detect bad sectors after 200something MBytes and does not stop for about 1000 sectors without 1 single good sector so I believe this has to do with the line above (HDD stops responding) so I quit the scan".

So only first 200MB is accessible ?
If yes, it looks like Partial Sector Accessabilty Problem
http://malthus.zapto.org/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=185

No. I stopped it manually at about 200MB as I thought it was pointless.

@Spildit: I will try that and report back here. Thank you for the hint.

[laptokowiec]

First of all don't use hddregenerator. To scan try MHDD instead.
Try to scan lba greater than 400000 (200 MB) i.e. 1000000, 10000000, 50000000 etc