good morning ;

a friend gave me a drive that he was playing the the FW and made the drive unusable, no data is needed .
drive is
seagate st3808110as
fw 3.ahl

drive not detected in bios "and bios hangs when connected"

and terminal showing

Interface task reset
4096k x 16 SDRAM
TONKA2 - 1_Disk M-31 03-22-06 10:53

Buzz - Head Mask FFFF - Switch to full int.
Spin Ready
(P)SATA Reset
DiskAccess ReadSector EC=47 at ffffffff.00.0002
DiskAccess ReadSector EC=47 at ffffffff.00.0002

Read Ver Retrys
DiskAccess ReadSector EC=47 at ffffffff.00.0002

Read Ver Retrys
DiskAccess ReadSector EC=47 at ffffffff.00.0002

Read Ver Retrys
DiskAccess ReadSector EC=47 at ffffffff.00.0002

Read Ver Retrys
DiskAccess ReadSector EC=47 at ffffffff.00.0002

Read Ver Failure!
DiskAccess ReadSector EC=47 at ffffffff.00.022b
Failed sys sect. write! Nwt Er 00 RdWr 1645e.00.022b
DiskAccess ReadSector EC=47 at ffffffff.00.0080
DiskAccess ReadSector EC=47 at ffffffff.00.0080
Unable To Load Overlay 01|000A

T>


any way to reuse this drive using terminal ? no data is needed at all .

thank you

- highlighted is the key to fix it
- terminal will NEVER solve it w/o the tools & knowing how

good luck

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Do you have some working tool to send firmware to the drive ?
I know a way that might work, but you will need something like a full version of Sediv or a SRT-3000 to send code back to the drive.

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No data needed and drive can not longer work after friend played with FW. Do you just want to play around with this and see if you can fix it. No harm done it has already been done before you got this one. If this is a learning experience then it should be fine to do as you wish with this one.

Other wise give up and get a new drive and go forward. There are some who will refurbish drives and maybe you can give it to them for a few bucks and get it back working. Refurbishing drives is a lot cheaper than fixing them and getting data back from them.

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thank you all for the hints ;

the drive is just for tests .

and sorry , i don't have a tool to transfer FW

I think that Self Test would fix it (N2,AA,22) but you would then have to send to the drive ATA Overlay and Vendor track. And of course you would loose all data and it would take long time to complete, but you would end up with a re-certified drive.

You will need better tools if you plan to keep on repairing drives as you are doing.

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If the drive is just for tests, try the following :

ERASE G-LIST :

CTRL+Z (AS SOON AS DRIVE POWER UP)
CTRL+R - Load Cert
i4,1,22

INITIALIZE S.M.A.R.T. :

Power OFF/ON and as soon as drive start CTRL+Z

/1 - Change to levet 1
N1 - Initialize S.M.A.R.T.

Power OFF/ON.

Post LOG.

Unable To Load Overlay 01|000A

Think it might be damaged G-List or S.M.A.R.T.

If not, no big deal as the drive is just "for testing" anyway ...

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thank you ..

i had the following

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T>

VALID Cert Disk Code Detected - Revision # .0C7

T>i4,1,22
T>Interface task reset
4096k x 16 SDRAM
TONKA2 - 1_Disk M-31 03-22-06 10:53

Buzz - Head Mask FFFF - Switch to full int.
Spin Ready
(P)SATA Reset
Not Interface Age!
VALID Cert Disk Code Detected - Revision # .0C7
Cert Table loaded

T>/1
1>N1
Can't execute AT overlay calls when cert code is present
smartres.c - ovl L1 failed
1>

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now the log is

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Interface task reset
4096k x 16 SDRAM
TONKA2 - 1_Disk M-31 03-22-06 10:53

Buzz - Head Mask FFFF - Switch to full int.
Spin Ready
(P)SATA Reset
Not Interface Age!
VALID Cert Disk Code Detected - Revision # .0C7
Cert Table loaded

*********************************

drive still not detected in bios

please press ; on terminal to check "age".
Post terminal answer to ;

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Also do the
/1
N1
without loading cert first (dont do ctrl+R)

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And if when you type ; you see something different from Age=50
Go to level T and put
N50,,22
power the drive off/on and post terminal log here.

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good evening ;

when i power up the drive it gives
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Interface task reset
4096k x 16 SDRAM
TONKA2 - 1_Disk M-31 03-22-06 10:53

Buzz - Head Mask FFFF - Switch to full int.
Spin Ready
(P)SATA Reset
Not Interface Age!
VALID Cert Disk Code Detected - Revision # .0C7
Cert Table loaded even i didn't call the cert yet
*****************

sending ; givving

T>Age=60 Type=00 MxCyl=00000 MxHd=0 MxSct=000 BSz=008M TCode=00000000 ThermFlts=
0000

*******************

/1
1>N1
Can't execute AT overlay calls when cert code is present
smartres.c - ovl L1 failed

*******************

T>N50,,22
Wrong data format. Write Adaptives rejected
Code - FD Track FFFFF(16456).0.1A0 Sns FFF Rty F7FF.50.80FF Rtf 1800 LB
A 0000042E
T>

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sending ; again now will give


T>Age=50 Type=00 MxCyl=00000 MxHd=0 MxSct=000 BSz=008M TCode=00000000 ThermFlts=
0000

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thank you

Power OFF/On now and Post log.
Check to see if drive works when connected to pc port

If not try again

/1
1>N1

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drive starts like this
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Interface task reset
4096k x 16 SDRAM
TONKA2 - 1_Disk M-31 03-22-06 10:53

Buzz - Head Mask FFFF - Switch to full int.
Spin Ready
(P)SATA Reset
Not Interface Age!
VALID Cert Disk Code Detected - Revision # .0C7
Cert Table loaded

T>

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drive is still not detected in bios ,and when sending the /1 and N1 command it gives

T>/1
1>N1
Can't execute AT overlay calls when cert code is present
smartres.c - ovl L1 failed
1>



thank you ...

Well, i guess age is again diferent then 50 ....
Maybe ATA overlay is gone ?

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UNfortunatly , YES

age is 60 after each power off/on

Are you willing to trash the drive ?
You can try to press CTRL+T to continue selftest starting on that level "age=60" and wait to see if it runs up till the end. You might have to wait some hours. Check with . command if it's running while you are waiting. If it ends in error you can try to change age back to 50.

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