I have seen there is a big community of dead Seagate hard drive re-animators. I never thought something so mean could happen with a relatively new piece of hardware.
My story: nine months ago I lost a whole afternoon looking in my city, one of the ten biggest capitol cities in the world, for a hard disk drive worthy of buying. I went first to the city’s computer mall, and there wasn’t an offer of any cool hard disks to buy. I’m a gamer, and I wanted a Seagate Barracuda Black.
It was disappointing to find that they only sold red, green and blue, mostly blue hard disks. After going to another district, and not finding anything, and then returning to the mall, I bought the Seagate barracuda model st500dm002 (500GB), what in the re-animators’ community is known as 7200.12…
I didn’t buy it in my first visit to the mall, because it wasn’t the size I wanted (I wanted 1TB or bigger)… Point in case, this disk was a PITA from day one.
I have a tri-boot system, and my Windows XP didn’t recognize it! Just like that! I was strapped for disk space, and was thinking how bad I should go and RMA it. But, seeing in the sticker that it was manufactured in mid-‘15, hence barely 4 or 5 months old…
I thought it simply wasn’t built to support XP, because Windows 7 and 8.1 detected it without any problem.
I happily used it for the span of nine months, until ten days ago, it came a moment when Windows 7 hanged in the splash screens of rebooting time, and it won’t reboot. I waited for more than five minutes and realizing something was wrong I hard-re-setted the PC.
The disk simply disappeared from Windows, post and setup. This was very bad news for me, because I never faced this problem in a quarter century of PC computing.
I’m working as a PC tech for the last four years, and I want to quit already. There’s too much technical stuff to study and too much money needs to be invested if you want to have a 100% integral computer fixing company. I wanted to fix this problem as soon as it happened. But I was in for the long haul, I just didn’t know it yet…
Okay, to be concise with what’s my problem after more than sixty tries, the problem is this: I can get to F3> on hyperterminal, but I get the FAIL Servo Op=0100 Resp=0003 if I do it isolating the PCB from the disk’s case.
What I did wrong?
I might or might not have gotten confused and input a command specific to .11, may I have messed anything in the logic board?
I believed a guy in youtube that said that it wasn’t necessary to isolate the PCB for .12; I followed the steps and on reboot the disk was seen at post, only to disappear again from setup and Windows.
Okay, I’ve spent the hours reading about reviving factory-faulty Seagates, the only good thing up to now from me is having learned something the bad way: that you shouldn’t trust your hard disk when you just bought it, at least wait until the warranty expires, they give it of a certain time span for a reason.
Now, I must do this myself, I cannot, because I don’t want, give this disk for RMA, not before I have an opportunity to access it, copy expendable stuff I had in it, my passwords’ database and then wipe/zero it wholly…
I do want to give it for RMA…once it’s all zeroed down, but not as it is now, because I have my life’s work in it. Thanks god I have backups, because I follow good computing practices… Now I’ve read that there is a way to deal with the error I’m getting.
Please, if you know a way of reviving 7200.12 without having to isolate the PCB, that would be optimal…
The way I’ve found of dealing with the fixing seagate barracuda “FAIL Servo Op=error” is shorting the read channel, right?
I’ve tried what I’ve understood it to be, to no avail, here I’m attaching pictures of the PCB, tell me if you need a picture of the inside side and I’ll update the post.
Which connectors would be the read channel for ST500DM002?
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