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I fixed my drive tonite. Thanks for your advice about the PSU. I tried with a 300W causing Windows and Hyperterminal to freeze when powering up the Barracuda. Switching to a 450W PSU pulled the trick.

Thanks BlouBul you made my day.

Glad it worked :thumbup (and you're welcome :D )

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I fixed my drive tonite. Thanks for your advice about the PSU. I tried with a 300W causing Windows and Hyperterminal to freeze when powering up the Barracuda. Switching to a 450W PSU pulled the trick.

2 notes :

i have firmware SD25

i followed this excellent tutorial http://www.mapleleafmountain.com/seagatebrick.html but before regenerating the partitions pull out the sata power cable and wait 1 minute (not doing so caused a very long wait and nothing happened)

Thanks BlouBul you made my day.

That is the right guide to use :)

Does your loopback test work? Do you have a cheap PSU? See here.

Otherwise we need more info on your converter setup and everything in your own words. The more detail you give, the more likely we will be able to identify the problem.

About firmware you can use SD1A in place of SD25. I used it! It works fine.

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I have finally make the interface working but when i start the terminal and power up the drive only

Rst 0x20M

and after i press Ctrl+Z nothing happen :(... What it can be wrong ?

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I have a bricked Segate Barracuda 7200.11 750GB

I read a couple guides and FAQ sticky, http://440beb44.qvvo.com/

I have a problem I did not see anyone mention

except that you get this message if I hit ctrl-z too soon

I Type ctrl+z

F3 T>

I Type /2

F3 2>

I Type Z and press enter

LED:000000CE FAddr:0025A261

LED:000000CE FAddr:0025A261

LED:000000CE FAddr:0025A261

i don't get "Spin Down Complete, Elapsed Time 0.146 msecs"

and yes I have the PCB disconnected using a card

UPDATE:

I just tried it by removing the pcb completely and now it worked.

so putting the card in to disconnecting is not a good idea.

Thanks for the fix!

hope my data is there, still working on it at this time.

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I read a couple guides and FAQ sticky,

This the FAQ sticky, I guess you are talking about the FGA http://homepage.ntlworld.com./jonathan.deboynepollard/FGA/fga-not-faq.html

I read a couple guides and FAQ sticky, http://440beb44.qvvo.com/

I have a problem I did not see anyone mention

except that you get this message if I hit ctrl-z too soon

I Type Z and press enter

LED:000000CE FAddr:0025A261

LED:000000CE FAddr:0025A261

LED:000000CE FAddr:0025A261

i don't get "Spin Down Complete, Elapsed Time 0.146 msecs"

and yes I have the PCB disconnected using a card

Did you read the recommended guide by CarterinCanada? :whistle:

Note: Some guides on the web have suggested insulating the *other* set of contacts (the "head" contacts) you see in the lower left of the above photo to the right. I tried this originally and it didn't work for me but obviously others have had some success with it. In *my* case, with 1TB model drives, I can assure you that insulating the slightly easier to access motor contacts worked where the head contacts method didn't. I suspect the specific model of your drive will account for the varying levels of the results so if one way doesn't work for you, think about trying the other. You'll know to look here if the HyperTerminal session won't allow you to spin down the drive and continues to give you the BSY error in reply - "LED:01...blah blah blah". If you're allowed to spin down the drive, then this bit isn't your issue.

UPDATE:

I just tried it by removing the pcb completely and now it worked.

so putting the card in to disconnecting is not a good idea.

Thanks for the fix!

hope my data is there, still working on it at this time.

That is the more difficult way (to put the whole pcb back with power on :ph34r: ), but glad it worked :)

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Hello again digital warriors!

Carter here just checking in with ongoing firmware war. You lot are doing fine work as usual getting the digital masses back to working order. Your computer karma should be off the charts by now.

I wanted to chime in with a little tidbit I’ve just updated on my method. I got a nice email from an engineer at Pololu, the company that makes the adapter I used to unbrick my own drives, informing me of a something they’ve started to see in the field now that there are hundreds (if not thousands) of you out there on the path to drive redemption. It seems that if you use particularly long jumpers in your setup, some LC voltage spikes can crop up and cause permanent damage to your adapter and cause you temporary insanity trying to sort out what went wrong. They have been able to reproduce the ‘effect’ consistently with jumper wires at 3 feet (about a meter) long. On their site they have linked a paper on the topic ( http://www.pololu.com/docs/0J16 ) for any of you tech nerds like me that are interested in such things and even have a solution where you insert a cheap capacitor into the setup to prevent the phenomenon.

For everyone else, don't panic! I think the message is just to be sure not to use particularly long wires and be sure your elderly power supply is up to specification (dust off the voltmeter perhaps?) before plugging into it with our whacky firmware cure. I believe this spike phenomenon could impact pretty much any brand of adapter out there so I’d suggest you err to the side of caution whichever TTL adapter you buy and keep your leads as short as possible. In my case they came in under 30cm (1 foot or 12 inches) total and my 650w power supply tested right at spec.

Otherwise I hope you’re all well and that winter is treating you kindly. At the moment I’m sitting in an airport headed back to Canada where I hear the snowboarding is off to a grand start this year. Remember to look up from fixing hard drives and get some fresh air when you can out there. Good holidays to you all. Cheers!

- CarterinCanada

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Hello again digital warriors!

Carter here just checking in with ongoing firmware war. You lot are doing fine work as usual getting the digital masses back to working order. Your computer karma should be off the charts by now.

Hi Carter, nice to see you.

The general idea when talking about such "picky" signals/setups, maybe we should add it to the ReadMe and/or FGA, is the KISS philosophy:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KISS_principle

Keep It Short ;) Stupid

Cheers,

jaclaz

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Hello,

I have a problem with my hdd,(ST3500320AS 500Gb 7200.11 S/N:9QM815FX P/N:9BX154-303 Firmware SD15 (Thailand)) I dont know what was wrong, but when I am turning on my pc and vista was loaded, my pc has very long response on every action I am was almost unable to do something. I was like that I could turn off my pc. When I turn it on again, same things happend, and again. But on the another try I am was unable to boot into the system. When I push reset and looked on the booting sequence my hdd was gone, then I enter in to the bios and I saw that there is not any hdd, it was srange. I found that the HDD will only appear if I off and turning on pc back, if I use only a reset button, hdd is still gone.

I am google it this problem and found that is a firmware problem. So, I am tryed to update firmware to version S1D, it was updated ok. Now I could see the hdd in the bios almost all the time, but there is a another problem. I dont know if this firmware upgrade help, but I thing that not.SMART status on this disk is now BAD and told me that I have do a copy of data and replace the disc.(but before firmware flash was Smart OK) When I connect hdd to another pc system (W7) could show me this hdd sometimes and I am able to see all my data. But when I start something to copy, something is copied, for example 8Gb of data and then suddenly stop with reading error from the disk. The disk disappear and is gone from table of hardware, like I suddenly disconnected him from pc. If I use only restart, hdd is not shown in the booting sequence and bios. I have to turn pc off and on. Hdd is now in the bios and so on.

So, what I can do?

Is it a firmware bug like on the other discs of this series?

Thanks for respond!

(Sorry for my english)

Martin

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You are clearly having a hard disk that is DYING. :ph34r:

This has NOTHING to do with this thread which is titled:

The Solution for Seagate 7200.11 HDDs

How-to fix 0 LBA and BSY errors

You DO NOT have a LBA0.

You DO NOT have a BSY.

If you need help in (hopefully) recover some data from your drive, START A NEW thread, suitably titled.

I will repeat myself:

  • your drive is dying
  • this has NOTHING to do with this thread (which is about two very specific errors that you don't have)
  • there is NOTHING you can do to "fix" the drive, the most you can do is to attempt recovering some data from it
  • each and every further access you do to the drive each and every hour, minute or second you try accessing it may lessen chances to recover data from it
  • my advice is to stop fiddling with that drive and start imaging it, if you need help with the latter, start a new thread.

jaclaz

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Hi all,

Few days ago I managed to fix my Seagate 7200.11 ST3640323AS SD13 HDD that was "dead" since 1.5 years ago, after exactly one year of moderate usage. It took me a lot of time to find exactly what the issue was, but after I found this forum, it all became clearer.

Symptoms on my HDD:

- not visible on BIOS

- comp will not boot with this drive connected

- on powering up the drive (no matter if connected to SATA cable or not) it would spin up for 3-5 seconds, make some sounds as if searching on drive surface for 1 sec, then spin down in 3-4 sec. Then the same over and over again - spin up, make some small sounds and spin down.

- no other sounds or noises except the above.

I used a Nokia CA-42 cheap clone data cable with 6 wires in it. I checked the cable before cutting it and the loopback test went ok, using the normal drivers it came with, then after cutting I have identified the wires by checking the image on

http://buffalo.nas-central.org/wiki/File:CA-42_DKU-5_pinout.jpg

or

http://pinouts.ru/CellularPhones-Nokia/nokia_pop_pinout.shtml

TX and RX were easy to find, however the GND was not pin8 (Data GND - USB GND), since the voltage difference to RX and TX was only 1 V, instead, I found the useful GND to be pin2 (Charger ground). Using this one, I had 3.3 V difference with RX and TX.

Next, more testing to see if data went through when using HyperTerminal and a voltmeter - voltage fluctuating slightly on the RX line when keeping a key pressed all times. Loopback test again and all went ok.

Finally, connecting all to the HDD jumper pins (including the GND from CA-42 cable), disconnecting the Motor from board and using all commands and instructions as in the tutorial from first page.

Last line was "Zone re-format was skipped." as other users encountered, however this is not an issue, after connecting the HDD to SATA and power, all files were present and there's no other issue with the drive.

Still have to update the firmware to SD1B that I see Seagate was kind enough to prepared for us :D

BTW, I read from many sources that SD1A causes the same issue at some point in time, so it would be wise to update to last version. However, did any of you encountered issues on SD1B ?

I also saw some other users had the same symptoms like me but none managed to fix their drives. Well, it's possible if you take some time to read and understand the READ_ME_FIRST + FGA. Also some basic technical knowledge is useful.

MANY THANKS to everyone who contributed their time and effort to help us all.

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BTW, I read from many sources that SD1A causes the same issue at some point in time, so it would be wise to update to last version. However, did any of you encountered issues on SD1B ?

That is strange... There was no reports of any problems with SD1A here. Can you give some links?

Hi, I will be using the method mentioned in this thread http://www.mapleleafmountain.com/seagatebrick.html.. only problem is that I can't find the Pololu Deluxe Serial adapter and the male and female jumper wires here in India.. Any other alternative available? Any website which will ship to India?

Try here

http://tinyurl.com/296l2sn

http://www.rhydolabz.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=304

http://cgi.ebay.in/CP2102-USB-TTL-RS232-Serial-Port-Converter-Transceiver-/230308271855

http://www.nex-robotics.com/products/usb-and-ethernet-interfacing/usb-to-serial-ttl-cmos-logic.html

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Hello,

I have a problem with my hdd,(ST3500320AS 500Gb 7200.11 S/N:9QM815FX P/N:9BX154-303 Firmware SD15 (Thailand))

Its off topic in this thread. But try to read SMART data and generate error code for drive exchange with SeaTools.
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BTW, I read from many sources that SD1A causes the same issue at some point in time, so it would be wise to update to last version. However, did any of you encountered issues on SD1B ?

That is strange... There was no reports of any problems with SD1A here. Can you give some links?

http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=seagate+sd1a+hdd+brick&meta=

First page and it's enough to get the picture ;)

BTW, it may be that only some models are affected by the SD1A issue, however on the Seagate official page there's still SD1A available for other models:

http://seagate.custkb.com/seagate/crm/selfservice/search.jsp?DocId=207951

For my drive, they have SD1B now.

:sneaky: cheers ...

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