Barracuda LP (no, not a 7200.11, nor a 7200.12)

[Eurgene]

Nice lesson jaclaz! Havn't anyone told you that you are a born teacher? This post is a priceless guidance to those DIY men who want to get few (appetizing) "crumbs" more.

What about professional data recovery - yes, I understand entirely that professional data recovery is preferable. But...

1. I can't afford to pay requested sum. I am not in hurry though and if I find not expensive and reliable service I will take an advantage of it.

2. To tell the truth I am not entirely trust in the professionalism of local IT (sometimes "professionals" can do less then amateurs - as here - died peacefully ST31500541AS ... and also quietly came alive! ). To send the HDD somewhere means to undergo it an extra risc (to be lost, broken up etc.)

3. As we can see (by way of example of 7200.11, 7200.12, ES.2 ...) information from "bricked" Seagates can be successfully recovered. Yes, Seagate did all to prevent that in Seagate LP but it still worth to try.

I might probably have DIY as my last resort. What I can do is double-check each step to reduce (sure, not avoid) the risc before I'll start reanimate it.

I did not find my old Siemens data-cable (I did reprogramed DVD players in old good times with it) so tomorrow I'll order Max232 RS232 COM converter on ebay. Meanwile, I am trying to guess a riddle of "m0,2,2,,,,,22 m,6,2,,,,,22" (by the way, don't you know what all this everlasting commas mean? what to input between commas?). I will also try to get authors of posts on http://forum.hddguru...ort-t23079.html to know how successful they were (we do not know if that story had the happy end, do we?)

[jaclaz]

I did not find my old Siemens data-cable (I did reprogramed DVD players in old good times with it) so tomorrow I'll order Max232 RS232 COM converter on ebay.

...and thus you will most probably get a "wrong" converter, working at 5V TTL and NOT at 3.3V TTL , I see how the read-me-first:

besides NEVER being read FIRST , is NOT actually read at all! .

Commas are parameter separators, two consequently commas simply mean that the parameter between them is omitted.

DO NOT EVEN THINK of experimenting with seagate terminal commands.

Your ONLY choice is to find a set of commands and issue them EXACTLY, even a very minor change may make your driive not only "bricked" but also IRRECOVERABLE.

DO NOT try inventing a new set of commands.

There is a "manual" for Seagate commands linked to in the "main" thread, though, here:

AND read these:

http://forum.hddguru.com/seagate-terminal-commands-t6411-40.html

http://forum.hddguru.com/seagate-7200-terminal-commands-t11926.html

jaclaz