[The Solution for Seagate 7200.11 HDDs]

@ VideoRipper

thanks, i'll test new commands.

yesterday i find out how N1 command will work in my case, i should first use m0,2,2,,,,,22 and after that N1 will work! and show something like this:

"SMART Cleaned"

but i didnt fix anything.

it made me angry and i use m0,,,,,,,22 and it formated 100% in 163min!!! but after that still my drive doent work.

u think my data is still there!?

[The Solution for Seagate 7200.11 HDDs]

Hmmm... well the problems might look similar, but doesn't necessairy have to be the same...

The procedure was written for and tested with Seagate 7200.11 drives with SD15 firmware and

while Maxtor now is property of Seagate, it doesn't automatically mean you can use the same

commands and/or parameters on Maxtor (or any other) drives or firmware-versions.

I'm not aware of any similarities or differences between Seagate 7200.11 and Maxtor DiamondMax

drives, so I can't help you on that one, I'm afraid

Greetz,

Peter.

no i'm sure every command are similar between Maxtor and Seagate but must be a something wrong!!! i think hardware because even i could do G-List command but just SMART comand it show that error!

2 questions:

1. i dont have laptop so i did that by one PC so RS232toTTL and HDD conections all conected to one PC, does it make any problem?

2. how can i find out heads working fine?

[The Solution for Seagate 7200.11 HDDs]

i did everything good but when i typed N1 i gave this error:

Init SMART Fail

LED:000000CC FAddr:0024E3A7

LED:000000CC FAddr:0024E3A7

LED:000000CC FAddr:0024E3A7

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.

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LED:000000CC FAddr:0024E3A7!!!!!!!!!!!!!

whats happened, i did every thing good?!!!!

please help me

i though my HDD has LBA-0 so i did Ctrl+Z and then m0,2,2,,,,,22 but it finished so soon showed:

Max Wr Retries = 0, Max Rd Retries = 0, Max ECC T-Level = 16, Max Certify Rewrite Retries = not supported

whats i have to do heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeelp!!!!! (

[The Solution for Seagate 7200.11 HDDs]

You're quite right:

In the 1st post tutorial (and in several others) GND is not used.

But it's better to use them.

And yes, you should interconnect all the GNDs among themseves, so that GND level is the same all over.

thanks a lot for fast response u helped me so much i'll test it

[The Solution for Seagate 7200.11 HDDs]

hi , i have STM3500418AS Dimondmax 23 500g ,after i update to new version firware CC3D and see problem in my HDD and that was similar BSY error that u said.

anyway, i didnt find RS232toTTL so i decided to create it (by schematic that Master VideoRipper put), i did it but i mixed up by ground connections?!

1. in schematic, connected GND of HDD Jumper to 15(IC) but in first post tutorial we dont use GND of jumper!?

2. can i connect all GND (DB9 , C5, C6, 15) to themselves? (GND is shared for all of them?)

excuse me for my bad english and very bad knowledges