Comments on: Unbricking a Seagate Barracuda

By: salim

salim — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 14:16:13 +0000

my hdd is showing the problem MODEL : ST3750330NS CAPACITY : 0MB visiting card inserted motor contacts disable F3 T> ^A Controller FW Rev: 12061642, CustomerRel: SN04, Changelist: 00052376, ProdType: MS01.SDN1, Date: 12/06/2007, Time: 164517, UserId: 00011250 Servo FW Rev: B0FA RAP Format Rev: 0092, Contents Rev: 15 05 00 08 F3 2>Z Spin Down Complete Elapsed Time 0.149 msecs F3 2>/2 F3 2>U Error 1009 DETSEC 00006008 Spin Error Elapsed Time 29.501 secs R/W Status 2 R/W Error 84150180 F3 2>m0,2,2,,,,,22 Unable to load Diag Overlay F3 2>/1 F3 1>N1 Unable to load Diag Overlay F3 1>/T F3 T>i4,1,22 Unable to load Diag Overlay F3 T> need adivce for terminal command, this error is repaiable or not, thanks

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By: Mathew

Mathew — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 23:01:35 +0000

Daniel: That’s the same advice I gave in my original post, which was a “this is what I did”, not a howto.

“I don’t recommend that people do it – if you have this problem and aren’t wearing a tinfoil hat, send it back to Seagate to safely recover your data.”

Dan S: I’m sorry to hear that. I don’t know why that would happen.

By: Daniel Oosterhuis

Daniel Oosterhuis — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 20:45:17 +0000

Dan S, and the rest of you, i have better advice, bring your HDD to i356 (A Seagate Company), they flash your drive for free, because of the FirmWare Epic Fail, and it won’t void warranties. I mean, free, and all the mess and work less. So don’t do this and just go to i365, or let your local mail service bring it, wich is also free.

By: Dan S

Dan S — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 17:24:20 +0000

I followed the procedure above on my bricked 7200.11 with SD15 firmware, and the drive is again working. However, when I attempt to flash the drive with the corrected firmware, it shows up in that process as a ‘ST31000340AS’, instead of the ST3750330AS’ that it really is. Is there something about the process that might have resulted in this situation? Goes without saying that the firmware update did not succeed, and Seagate Tech Support now reports that since I did this repair I have voided the warranty – jeez!

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By: Mathew

Mathew — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 00:58:46 +0000

Hassiem: No, I have no idea. I was fortunate that it worked for me; I wouldn’t have been able to figure it out if I’d had problems.
Trev: No, nowhere near Sydney
MC: No, I don’t know anything more than I’ve said, I’m afraid.
Meiko: I didn’t use that method, so I don’t know. Also, as I’ve said before, I can’t give you names of the wires because they vary from cable to cable. The only way to be sure was to use a multimeter.

Sorry for the late reply, I’ve been away a while. Not that I helped anyone, anyway!

By: Meiko Woods

Meiko Woods — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 22:49:24 +0000

Matt, I have a few questions. I noticed on the alldav site there’s a RS232 to TTL/CMOS converter and a RS232 to TTL converter. Does it matter which one? And can you give me exact names of the wires you used?

By: MC

MC — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 23:27:05 +0000

Hi, so I read the linked tutorial, and the guy says this only works if bios says bsy, if bios has 0 MB shown you need different instructions.. Any idea what those different instructions are? There is no way to contact the writer of the tutorial, that I could see.
Thanks