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data-medics
 Post subject: Seagate Translator Issues
PostPosted: October 24th, 2014, 17:45 
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So I'm working on a 3E Holliday Family Drive which came in showing correct model/serial/fw but no capacity.

On initial backup of the SA I get an error on 002B R/W Operating Parameters. Which I'm pretty sure is the translator. Plus head 1 had some issues reading certain System files, though head 0 read them all fine.

After backing up everything I could I first attempted to rebuild translator (using PC-3000). Now it shows the correct size however it can only read the first 11 sectors, nothing after that.

My next thought is to attempt to regenerate translator, but I'm wondering if there's anything else I should try first (since I know that doesn't always work).

Any thoughts guys?

(oh, and head test came back clean, so I don't think that's an issue)

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 Post subject: Re: Seagate Translator Issues
PostPosted: October 24th, 2014, 19:48 
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 Post subject: Re: Seagate Translator Issues
PostPosted: October 25th, 2014, 0:31 
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thatdellguy wrote:
Stick a "fork" in it...


+1

"fork" is the keyword, either automatic or manually.
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 Post subject: Re: Seagate Translator Issues
PostPosted: October 25th, 2014, 12:05 
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Update: I went ahead and regenerated the translator. AKA automatic "forking". Worked like a charm, data looks good.

Thanks.

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 Post subject: Re: Seagate Translator Issues
PostPosted: October 25th, 2014, 16:45 
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data-medics wrote:
Update: I went ahead and regenerated the translator. AKA automatic "forking". Worked like a charm, data looks good.

Thanks.


Latest version works well :-)

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