Have a Seagate ST3500320AS 7200.11 drive. Starting at about 500k sectors in, and running to 193468209 sectors, if I read those sectors with MHDD, I get ABRT. Reading from 193468209 to EOD works fine.

When the ABRT happens, if I stop the scan, do another PORT command, the drive is gone. I have to power cycle it to get it back.

Any ideas? Seems like a firmware problem to me.

You did check to see that it is up to par on the FIRMWARE? Everyone is aware of the "FIRMWARE" issues on these drives.

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not the usual "firmware" failure if you can actually read some sectors, possibly a weak head. You need to troubleshoot with terminal to diagnose fully.

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I was worried you'd (or someone else) would say that.

I'll play around with it a little. The drive, that is.

Thanks as always for the input.

I had similar problem lately, all sectors beyond certain LBA gave errors. Usually this is FW related, but in this case I built head map and ignored H0 and rest of the disk was accessed.

Was strange case, but got most data recovered.

did you try make head map in DDI or DE?

[quote="hddguy"]I had similar problem lately, all sectors beyond certain LBA gave errors. Usually this is FW related, but in this case I built head map and ignored H0 and rest of the disk was accessed.


worth to try.

drive seems to be recovered from busy bug issue, is it ? because it is 7200.11 family ?

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