Spildit wrote:
Most likely heads are dying and / or surface is damaged, etc ...
If you have very expensive firmware tools or at least a $350 SeDiv tool you can backup firmware tracks and attempt to run factory self scan but most likely drive will be to damaged to be re-cert.
You can for example disable bad head(s) and re-calculate adaptives and that can be of use to get some extra life out of the drive but ... soooner or later it will die anyway so buy a replacement drive and don't buy any Seagate F3 arch drive (any recent Seagate).
Good luck.
I have already replace it. It's just for fun and learn.
I successful recover all the data, so I don't think it is a head. One of the partitions
is a little swap partition. My guess is there is surface damage in that part of the disk (near the end).
Is there a way to see a realtime log through serial port?