HI
I have a segate ST3500841A fw3.AAE(TONKA4D) with many bad sectors.
in the beginning i tried logical scan and hide to p-list butt did not work because i keep getting a write error at plist writhing
so i tried self scan butt the test ended in age99(i think is an error). i tried for 2 times( same result)

Begin Test 99
ASCII logging on
ASCII logging off
ASCII logging on
TestIndex=20/111, Stage 1/1, Prev test 56, Next test 10
ASCII logging off
Test=99, Feature=0, cumhlth=0008, curhlth=0000
OkEnd Test 99

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now i rewrite cert, overlay, vendor and the hdd is detected ok butt the reserved track list,user track list and, alt list are empty and the hdd is full of bad sectors
i have attached a file with the self scan report
anyone know haw to repair this drive?
thanks

nobody knows?

continue ^T

N50,,22
T50
AND THEN N10,,22

.....WAIT FOR FINISHING

/T
N10,,22
ctrl+t

RUN TEST,until the test end

DON'T power off,write ovelay ,vendor,save to disk

this disk will be repaired.

good luck for you

These newer seagate drives use two selfscan after first finishes u have to give CTRL+T to start with the second one .

It's at test 99 when the past tests are checked and overlay's etc are loaded in the factory

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All went well until I plugged the drive in.