Hi!
It's my first post here, sorry for my english

Seagate ST1000DM003
PN: 1ER162-300
FW: CC43
Board number: 100724095 rev A

The drive is not being detected by Bios. When connected to terminal, HDD allow me to log in to the console, I can switch between levels, but I can't do anything else. Drive doesn't respond to commands like SpinDown, Translator repair, etc:

Reaction for translator rebuild is the same - no reaction and no anwser from the drive.

Am I missing something? I'm working without shorted "read channel" pins (I think there's no need if I can access the console, I don't even know, which pins should be short). Can this be a bad head or HSA problem? I don't get any LED errors, except the N1 command, wchich returns some (but I don't have any log).

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This may be a model with locked terminal access. Do you have a current PC3K system?

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Luke
Recovery Force Data Recovery

jermy
No reaction, nothing happening when pressing keys.

lcoughey
I'm using only simple RS232TTL adapter with HyperTerminal.

I found, that I can't read any info from SA:

Same reaction for V2, V8, V10, V20, V40, V80, V100.
Only V4 returns some info:

Type CTRL+Z and you should see a prompt like this F3 T>
F3 T> Type /2 and press (enter). It should say F3 2>
F3 2> Type Z (enter)

Now you'll see something like that;
Spin Down Complete
Elapsed Time 0.137 msecs (the time won't be same as here)F3 2>

Now carefull remove piece of paper with drive still powered by SATA power cable and TX/RX lies connected.
Carefully screw PCB board back on HDD case. (make sure that the screws don't short the PCB board)
To start the motor, type U
F3 2>U (enter)

Now it should look something like this:
Spin Up Complete
Elapsed Time 7.129secs

To go to Level 1 type /1 and hit enter
F3 2>/1

Create S.M.A.R.T. sector
Type N1 (enter)


IMPORTANT Power off the drive, wait 10 seconds and now Power ON your drive.

Press CTRL+Z on terminal and type:(case sensitive!!!!)

F3 T>m0,2,2,,,,,22 (enter)

After 15-30 seconds, you should see something like:

Max Wr Retries = 00, Max Rd Retries = 00, Max ECC T-Level = 14, Max Certify Rewrite Retries = 00C8
User Partition Format 6% complete, Zone 00, Pass 00, LBA 00008DED, ErrCode 00000080, Elapsed Time 0 mins 05 secs
User Partition Format Successful - Elapsed Time 0 mins 05 secs

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Disk have locked terminal access - that's the reason of it's weird respond on commands. As I found, for now there's no way to unlock it at home - am I right?

Yep, as already mentioned lcoughey

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My firmware database:
https://mega.nz/folder/O01DkBRI#MxP2J6ZNqXDcrX40I8MoQQ

Yes he did. I also found similar topic with identical drive, and I'm 100% sure now.

Thanks for all, especially for lcoughey for proper diagnose.