ZED, You stated that you have a few offers already, how come you don't want to accept them?

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too many shrimps on the barby LOL

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All went well until I plugged the drive in.

Lol, a few offers from people who say they know how to fix it but i have to send it to them. Or they ask for the payment up front before they tell me.

What's wrong in outsourcing ? Zed, place your offer for "THE KNOWLEDGE" , maybe someone will accept. Ask for a proof, give the money and get the info. It's that simple....

Outsourcing is the reason why we have to call Mumbai India tech support to repair a pos retail computer in this country.
Outsourcing is the reason why our economy is in the trashcan.
Outsourcing is the reason why many people are unemployed.
Need I go on?

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Buy your friends Toshiba\Hitachi and your enemies Seagate.

The other face of crisis is 'opportunity'.

Zed with all due respect people in this forum are not stupid, why would anyone sell $800 for their hard earn knowledge where they can do a single data recovery for few thousand $ ? Plus once you have gained the knowledge you can earn even more. Well for time being this particular knowledge is i think not for sale. Outsource is the way to go.

I give up - i'll figure it out the hard way, late nights and hard work. Thanks for all of you who have offered me hints/tips and information so far. I'll return the favour and send you the full solution to this problem by PM when i figure this out.

P.S Outsourcing is not always helpful, for example for forensic cases.

Case closed.

Zed, i think Australia is one of the only countries which allow reverse engineering.. Maybe thats changed but worth getting an electronics (pref embedded) engineer on contract

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Have you been smokin dope?

I found a list of disk ata commands for this model disk in the Seagate Product manual online for the 7200.11

See the pages towards the end of this manual.
http://www.seagate.com/staticfiles/supp ... 52348b.pdf

I hope this helps others on this forum.

Zed.

Thats just standard stuff. You won't see any VU commands in there. You can only do funky magic within the diag port

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Thanks, any idea where i can get a list of seagate serial port
commands on the internet? If so - please send me a PM and i would be most greatful.

For the 7200.11 ?

Hi Zed,

I remember this post from pcimage and it got me thinking........
seagate-7200-t10369.html?hilit=7200.11
I'm surprised no one else picked up on this!

Where do you think the terminal command set might be stored?
In the SA?
In a rom?
In a microprocessor?
In volatile memory?

It must be possible to gain access to the required code and then to disasemble it just the same as any 'hacker' might.
I supose you could actually pay a software engineer to do this for you. Maybe a poor student at college?

I give up....... fk me.... If no one can use their BRAIN to work it out you should all be growing VEGETABLES/POTATOES in some field....but then you will probably kill your crop and blame the fertilizer :O)

Just crazy crazy crazy.......................................................................


USE YOUR BRAINS! The answer is WITHIN hddguru.com !!!!

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@dick

I have bad news.
The terminal code are more on these places!

The general are in the PCB (inside the MCU), but more modules added when the drive "boots", and more levels, functions added later....

So, good luck!

Regards,
Janos

Why not spell it out?