Hi guys. I have an old drive,
st3000dm001 seagate.
pn: 1ch166-305
pw: CC27
Date 14115

I believe I formatted it ext3 or 4.

It mounts, I can see the directories, but after a few seconds it unmounts. Does not seem to be at a set rate- appears random time.
I was even able to copy a few small text files from it, but it unmounts before anything of size is attempted.
Is there any hope for a DIY attempt? If so- is it as simple as replacing the PCB?

There is nothing on it worth much- just some old memories. but i thought it would be fun to try and maybe learn something.

thanks in advance
John Kilbert

Best DYI would be opensuperclone which will try to make a copy of your drive to another one.
Then you'd try to get your data back from the clone.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/opensuperclone-live/

There may be some terminal commands to get the drive to work better for the clone process, but it would depend on your ST3000DM001 model (some are tech locked which means they need to be unlocked in order to give the drive terminal commands) You need pro DR tools for this.

I'd try https://sourceforge.net/projects/opensuperclone-live/ and see how it goes. Hopefully the issues are localized to a few sectors / files.

It's very unlikely the issue relates to the PCB.

Thanks for the help I will try it!

Try Seatools and wipe the disk clean and see if that helps get the antique back in business

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Ignore this.

+1 to what WebClaw said.

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