n0bby

Hi jaclaz, Sorry for the delay, I have been busy recently. I was more hoping to find good news in the link, than I really found I learned that with this particular HDD, Seagate not only placed 100% firmware on the platters, but they also launched new approach to the drive in which once it can not read from the platters it will not initiate, period... Most probable reason, bad sectors or even platters surface damage. It might be possible to enforce firmware update via terminal, but it remains unknown to me which commands and in which sequence should be administered. This secret is a well kept secret, as a Chinese company launched a dedicated terminal device which includes software onboard (probably encrypted sequence of the right commands) which revives bricked drives of all sorts. This is what I have learnt so far, I do not give up though Greetings, n0bby

Hi there, Once again have I read something that encourages me to do what I previously had planned. Look here please. Is this promising or what? n0bby

Thanks for Your immediate response jaclaz I assume Your diagnosis does not leave me much hope for home solution to the problem. Since that russian guy strongly suggests something is messed up with the microcode of the drive, and recommends updating the firmware over, maybe one day an instruction how to do that is released, unless of course data recovery pros want to keep it mystery Greets all, n0bby

Hi there, Well, my think reading good so yes, i did the job, below from quoted by jaclaz procedure ...so I DID NOT do the formatting part. Thanks for the reply, I hoped this place not to be dead, but it seems Seagate brilliant boys have managed to keep us all very active

Seagate Barracuda LP Green 5900rpm HDD S/N: 5YD17GBZ ST2000DL003 P/N:9VT166-300 F/W:CC31 Date:11246 Site:WU Used in an external docking station for 2 years HDD disappeared once and for all (not present in OS nor in BIOS). Terminal status is: I tried softer version of "the old Barracuda way" (no formatting commands) with the terminal but nothing happened. Having access to all terminal commands, I tried disconnecting the heads, but then there is no access to the terminal. I read here that only enforced firmware update can save the day, but as there is no other access for me to the drive than terminal I am wondering how could this be done with just terminal commands. Since I do not have PC-3000 nor any device hacks I could use, maybe my second fully operational Barracuda drive could be a solution. What I am thinking about is physically replacing the ROM chip from the bricked drive to the PCB of the operational drive and replacing the PCB. Do you think this could work?