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Rousie.

I just put a piece à paper in order to insulate the three wires coming from the center motor. So the motor does not start when plugin the alimentation connector.

Stop motor by telnet command, pull out the paper, tighten the screw and continue proceeding. It worked fine on my 500Gb ST3500620AS.

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After performing the BSY fix, can I format the hard drive while in the same terminal window session?

I just need to erase my drive before sending it back for a warranty replacement.

Thanks for any help.

You'd better use Secure erase ATA commands (HDDErase/HDParm).

Here:

http://ata.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/ATA_Secure_Erase

http://cmrr.ucsd.edu/people/Hughes/SecureErase.shtml

Also inside UBCD:

http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/

jaclaz

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After performing the BSY fix, can I format the hard drive while in the same terminal window session?

I just need to erase my drive before sending it back for a warranty replacement.

Thanks for any help.

You'd better use Secure erase ATA commands (HDDErase/HDParm).

Here:

http://ata.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/ATA_Secure_Erase

http://cmrr.ucsd.edu/people/Hughes/SecureErase.shtml

Also inside UBCD:

http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/

jaclaz

I'm not sure I understand your answer.

After this step is performed:

When the prompt comes back up, turn off power to the hard drive, wait a few seconds, then turn it back on. Wait about 20 seconds, then finally do partition regeneration:

F3 T>m0,2,2,0,0,0,0,22 (enter)

After 15-30 seconds, you should see something like:

Max Wr Retries = 00, Max Rd Retries = 00, Max ECC T-Level = 14, Max Certify Rewrite Retries = 00C8

User Partition Format 10% complete, Zone 00, Pass 00, LBA 00004339, ErrCode 00000080, Elapsed Time 0 mins 05 secs

User Partition Format Successful - Elapsed Time 0 mins 05 secs

can I enter a dos command to format the drive?

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can I enter a dos command to format the drive?

No, I was suggesting you, after you have debricked the drive, to re-assemble it properly, remove the TTL connection, connect it normally to a PC and use a "normal" program to erase it.

The advised ones are not actually "normal" as they use an internal function of all ATA (and SATA) drives.

What you asked was about ERASing data, the provided method is the one that is at the same time "low-level" enough and "high-level" enough.

Erasing is NOT formatting.

jaclaz

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can I enter a dos command to format the drive?

No, I was suggesting you, after you have debricked the drive, to re-assemble it properly, remove the TTL connection, connect it normally to a PC and use a "normal" program to erase it.

The advised ones are not actually "normal" as they use an internal function of all ATA (and SATA) drives.

What you asked was about ERASing data, the provided method is the one that is at the same time "low-level" enough and "high-level" enough.

Erasing is NOT formatting.

jaclaz

The problem is that the drive will brick upon hooking it back up to the computer and rebooting. So I need a method to erase the drive while I have it in an UN-bricked state. The drive is only is only in an UN-bricked state immediately after performing the BSY fix.

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I see :), for some unknown reasons you are performing a BSY non-fix. :(

You can try MHDD with the "disableBIOS" option, but cannot say if it works on your "strangely fixed" drive:

http://hddguru.com/content/en/software/2005.10.02-MHDD/

http://hddguru.com/content/en/software/200..._manual.en.html

jaclaz

Still not sure you understand my situation. I currently have the drive successfully un-bricked. The Putty terminal window is still open. Is there command I can enter into Putty that will perform some sort of formatting or erasing of the data on the drive?

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Still not sure you understand my situation. I currently have the drive successfully un-bricked. The Putty terminal window is still open. Is there command I can enter into Putty that will perform some sort of formatting or erasing of the data on the drive?

Yes, I do understand your situation allright :), but I don't know if such a command exists, or, if it exists, it's exact syntax. :wacko:

Have you checked the (partial) list of commands available? :unsure:

Here:

http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showto...28092&st=78

http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showto...8092&st=460

http://files.hddguru.com/download/Datashee...0RS-232%20Port/

jaclaz

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Still not sure you understand my situation. I currently have the drive successfully un-bricked. The Putty terminal window is still open. Is there command I can enter into Putty that will perform some sort of formatting or erasing of the data on the drive?

Yes, I do understand your situation allright :), but I don't know if such a command exists, or, if it exists, it's exact syntax. :wacko:

Have you checked the (partial) list of commands available? :unsure:

Here:

http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showto...28092&st=78

http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showto...8092&st=460

http://files.hddguru.com/download/Datashee...0RS-232%20Port/

jaclaz

Yes, but I don't see any commands that look like what I need. I'll try to shut down the drive and reinstall it, but this just ususally bricks the drive again immediately, not allowing me to acces it to erase.

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@bill4d:As Jaclaz is also writing between the lines:

If the drive is bricked as soon as you hook it into you computer, than it was not sucessfully unbricked before.

We us the term unbricked for drives that are accessible by the computer again.

As long as is it not accessible by the computer it is as much as a brick.

Whether you can communicate per seral interface or not has nothing to do with unbricked or not.

Regards

Chilli

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@bill4d:As Jaclaz is also writing between the lines:

If the drive is bricked as soon as you hook it into you computer, than it was not sucessfully unbricked before.

We us the term unbricked for drives that are accessible by the computer again.

As long as is it not accessible by the computer it is as much as a brick.

Whether you can communicate per seral interface or not has nothing to do with unbricked or not.

Regards

Chilli

BTW, found a solution to your firmware problem yet?

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On feb 7 I said:

All I need now is a bootable CD to uptdate my firmware. All I found on Seagate'site is SD1A firmware (.exe file) and an ISO file which do not contain any firmware. How can I proceed. I'm completely stuck. :(

Sorry. I load the ISO file. It works fine.

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BTW, found a solution to your firmware problem yet?

NOP. Don't have much time either.

Seems that interresting stuff is "hidden" in bootblock for each, seagate flash tool and FSC flash utility. Don't have an utility installed yet to view boot block content.

Btw. I took a look what flash utility did on the USB stick: it made a 100MB Ext3 partition and used 14 MB of it (excluding boot blcok).

So I don't know what FSC ment with 1,7GB free space on stick...

It's funny enough that you have to download a utility with about 340MB to get 14MB on the stick...

However with static library you're always on safe side ;-).

Regards

Chilli

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@bill4d:As Jaclaz is also writing between the lines:

If the drive is bricked as soon as you hook it into you computer, than it was not sucessfully unbricked before.

We us the term unbricked for drives that are accessible by the computer again.

As long as is it not accessible by the computer it is as much as a brick.

Whether you can communicate per seral interface or not has nothing to do with unbricked or not.

Regards

Chilli

Is there a way to erase the drive while I am connected to it through the terminal window?

Does anyone know if this can be done?

I just need to erase the drive before returning it for a warranty replacement.

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