Seagate ST380811AS doesn't show up over ATA

[CodeEarth]

Im not 100% on what happened here, so i'll just lay it out.

This 7200.9 was used in a contest to see who could recover data from a drive that was zero'd and had badblocks run on it. Safe to say, nothing was recovered. There was an attempt made to dump the individual sectors over the serial UART for analysis and in doing so it disappeared from the ATA bus. Im out of my league to be honest here, it's not a Linux/Unix or VxWorks powered embedded machine. So far ive cleared SMART, cleared the glist. and that's as far as i got. still doesn't show up. Here is the output of the, eh, POST(?)

Code:

Interface task reset
4096k x 16 SDRAM
TLITE - 1_Disk    S-6B   03-22-06 10:53

Buzz  - Head Mask FFFF - Switch to full int.
              Spin Ready
(P)SATA Reset

Stuff Was Unreadable3.AAE  09-29-06_15:01 AAE,KL_1D_1H_S,3A


I have no clue what im looking at, but i want to learn.

Thanks!

[jermy]

http://hddoracle.com/viewtopic.php?f=83&t=869

[CodeEarth]

http://hddoracle.com/viewtopic.php?f=83&t=869

huh, and i even searched for that... thanks!

[marwan]

try to enter the firmware info, which is on the 4 position of the sequence number for the firmware could possibility.