Hi All,
I have a drive that I am not sure how to diagnose.
ST3160811AS
FW: 3.AAE

Upon power up, it comes ready in normal time frame. When I try to detect it, it goes busy for quite a while but does eventually ID correct. Imaging is almost impossible though. I have to set delay before soft reset for a very long time or I get read errors. It doesn't matter what block size I set for imaging, it will read a block then take a really long time to come ready again and then read another block. Short delay times to reset just get lots of read errors. I can read any sector on the drive it seems if I just read that one sector.
Terminal shows:

Interface task reset
4096k x 16 SDRAM
TLITE2HD - 1_Disk S-69 06-20-06_14:34

Buzz - Head Mask FFFF - Switch to full int.
Spin Ready
(P)(H)SATA Reset
AT Er 00 Nwt Er 37 RdWr 0fafd.01.0000
ATA St 50 Er 01 Op 00 0,0000/0/00,00 01 00
Niwot: 97f29ff7 b6 97f29ff7.1.6b7 0000 005f 0000 0000
DiskAccess ReadSector EC=43 at 00fafd.01.0000

CE Log ErrCode=37 LBA=95a5f1b Type=5 Add To Pending 95a5f1b
AT Er 00 Nwt Er 37 RdWr 0fafd.01.0001
ATA St 50 Er 01 Op 00 0,0000/0/00,00 01 00
Niwot: 9ff79ff7 b6 9ff79ff7.1.6b7 0000 005f 0000 0000
DiskAccess ReadSector EC=43 at 00fafd.01.0001

CE Log ErrCode=37 LBA=95a5f1c Type=5 Add To Pending 95a5f1c
AT Er 00 Nwt Er 37 RdWr 0fafd.01.0002
ATA St 50 Er 01 Op 00 0,0000/0/00,00 01 00
Niwot: 9ff79ff7 b6 9ff79ff7.1.6b7 0000 005f 0000 0000
DiskAccess ReadSector EC=43 at 00fafd.01.0002

CE Log ErrCode=37 LBA=95a5f1d Type=5 Add To Pending 95a5f1d
AT Er 00 Nwt Er 37 RdWr 0fafd.01.0003
ATA St 50 Er 01 Op 00 0,0000/0/00,00 01 00
Niwot: 9ff79ff7 b6 9ff79ff7.1.6b7 0000 005f 0000 0000
DiskAccess ReadSector EC=47 at 00fafd.01.0003

CE Log ErrCode=37 LBA=95a5f1e Type=5 Add To Pending 95a5f1e
AT Er 00 Nwt Er 37 RdWr 0fafd.01.0004
ATA St 50 Er 01 Op 00 0,0000/0/00,00 01 00
Niwot: 9ff79ff7 b6 9ff79ff7.1.6b7 0000 005f 0000 0000
DiskAccess ReadSector EC=43 at 00fafd.01.0004

CE Log ErrCode=37 LBA=95a5f1f Type=5 Add To Pending 95a5f1f
AT Er 00 Nwt Er 37 RdWr 0fafd.01.0005
ATA St 50 Er 01 Op 00 0,0000/0/00,00 01 00
Niwot: 9ff79ff7 b6 9ff79ff7.1.6b7 0000 005f 0000 0000
DiskAccess ReadSector EC=43 at 00fafd.01.0005

CE Log ErrCode=37 LBA=95a5f20 Type=5 Add To Pending 95a5f20
AT Er 00 Nwt Er 37 RdWr 0fafd.01.0006
ATA St 50 Er 01 Op 00 0,0000/0/00,00 01 00
Niwot: 9ff79ff7 b6 9ff79ff7.1.6b7 0000 005f 0000 0000
DiskAccess ReadSector EC=43 at 00fafd.01.0006

CE Log ErrCode=37 LBA=95a5f21 Type=5 Add To Pending 95a5f21
AT Er 00 Nwt Er 37 RdWr 0fafd.01.0007
ATA St 50 Er 01 Op 00 0,0000/0/00,00 01 00
Niwot: 9ff79ff7 b6 9ff79ff7.1.6b7 0000 005f 0000 0000
DiskAccess ReadSector EC=43 at 00fafd.01.0007

CE Log ErrCode=37 LBA=95a5f22 Type=5 Add To Pending 95a5f22
AT Er 00 Nwt Er 37 RdWr 0fafd.01.0008
ATA St 50 Er 01 Op 00 0,0000/0/00,00 01 00
Niwot: 9ff79ff7 b6 9ff79ff7.1.6b7 0000 005f 0000 0000
DiskAccess ReadSector EC=43 at 00fafd.01.0008

CE Log ErrCode=37 LBA=95a5f23 Type=5 Add To Pending 95a5f23
AT Er 00 Nwt Er 37 RdWr 0fafd.01.0009
ATA St 50 Er 01 Op 00 0,0000/0/00,00 01 00
Niwot: 9ff79ff7 b6 9ff79ff7.1.6b7 0000 005f 0000 0000
DiskAccess ReadSector EC=43 at 00fafd.01.0009

CE Log ErrCode=37 LBA=95a5f24 Type=5 Add To Pending 95a5f24
AT Er 00 Nwt Er 37 RdWr 0fafd.01.000a
ATA St 50 Er 01 Op 00 0,0000/0/00,00 01 00
Niwot: 9ff79ff7 b6 9ff79ff7.1.6b7 0000 005f 0000 0000
DiskAccess ReadSector EC=43 at 00fafd.01.000a

CE Log ErrCode=37 LBA=95a5f25 Type=5 Add To Pending 95a5f25
AT Er 00 Nwt Er 37 RdWr 0fafd.01.000b
ATA St 50 Er 01 Op 00 0,0000/0/00,00 01 00
Niwot: 9ff79ff7 b6 9ff79ff7.1.6b7 0000 005f 0000 0000
DiskAccess ReadSector EC=47 at 00fafd.01.000b

CE Log ErrCode=37 LBA=95a5f26 Type=5 Add To Pending 95a5f26
AT Er 00 Nwt Er 37 RdWr 0fafd.01.000c
ATA St 50 Er 01 Op 00 0,0000/0/00,00 01 00
Niwot: 9ff79ff7 b6 9ff79ff7.1.6b7 0000 005f 0000 0000
DiskAccess ReadSector EC=43 at 00fafd.01.000c

CE Log ErrCode=37 LBA=95a5f27 Type=5 Add To Pending 95a5f27
AT Er 00 Nwt Er 37 RdWr 0fafd.01.000d
ATA St 50 Er 01 Op 00 0,0000/0/00,00 01 00
Niwot: 9ff79ff7 b6 9ff79ff7.1.6b7 0000 005f 0000 0000
DiskAccess ReadSector EC=47 at 00fafd.01.000d

CE Log ErrCode=37 LBA=95a5f28 Type=5 Add To Pending 95a5f28
AT Er 00 Nwt Er 37 RdWr 0fafd.01.000e
ATA St 50 Er 01 Op 00 0,0000/0/00,00 01 00
Niwot: 9ff79ff7 b6 9ff79ff7.1.6b7 0000 005f 0000 0000
DiskAccess ReadSector EC=43 at 00fafd.01.000e

This goes on forever until I power off.
The weird thing is that the drive is not busy but is ready the whole tome this is going on.
So my question is, is this something that can probably be fixed through terminal or is it more likely a failing part.
Thanks for any help diagnosing if this is hardware or firmware problem.

I agree. I'm thinking very weak heads. Even when I just read a single sector, it takes about 3 seconds to read but all of the ones I have looked at do have good data.

No, this is a known issue with these drives.

seagate-7200-st3250624a-t10711.html

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Some times its not head, and with the proper tools & Knowledgment , its possible to " stop" some "tests" and get data back, need to send to a DR proof wich know that. "adding sectors to the pending list" a people who never works with that could tried head swap and if no works, no solution, need to know how to works with that " adding sectors to the pending list"

Regards

It's a standard "CE log" error, usually easily fixable.

Original culprit is usually slightly weak/dirty heads, or media degradation

In fact, I've just done one of these a couple of hours ago. Almost finished imaging.

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Dam, you beat me to it. I did one yesterday same symptoms, 750 Gb 7200.10. Its easy to fix with the right tools.

Even Salvation can handle it.

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When you say right tools, is that PC3000 or Salvation only? This is not something that can be fixed enough to image through terminal. IE fixed remotely? If it can be, it would be imaged using DE that comes with the cucumber, I mean HRT.

By terminal its póssible but u need to know how ,

OK, I know there is no spoon feeding here but I figured maybe someone would tell me if I am at least on the right path. I have been looking at this all day.

Interface task reset
4096k x 16 SDRAM
TLITE2HD - 1_Disk S-69 06-20-06_14:34

Buzz - Head Mask FFFF - Switch to full int.
Spin Ready
(P)(H)SATA Reset
AT Er 00 Nwt Er 37 RdWr 0fafd.01.0000
ATA St 80 Er 01 Op 00 0,0000/0/00,00 01 00
Niwot: 97f29ff7 b6 97f29ff7.1.6b7 0000 005f 0000 0000
DiskAccess ReadSector EC=43 at 00fafd.01.0000

CE Log ErrCode=37 LBA=95a5f1b Type=5 Add To Pending 95a5f1b
AT Er 00 Nwt Er 37 RdWr 0fafd.01.0001
ATA St 80 Er 01 Op 00 0,0000/0/00,00 01 00
Niwot: 9ff79ff7 b6 9ff79ff7.1.6b7 0000 005f 0000 0000

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EP=1, TA=1, HiGain=1, OTRd=1, Early Rd=0, Splash=1, Reload=1, NPML=1, MRBias=1
Bst/Zap=1, SrvoThrsh=1, RunOut=1, MaxECC=1, ECC 2=1, ECC 1=1, ECC 0=1
Data=58, Write=80, ID=FF, DER=001F, RdWrOpts=F7FF
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Is the problem Data=58 and DER=001F?
I do understand if I have exceeded the help limits.