[jaclaz]

DrThief, on 08 January 2012 - 09:30 AM, said:

Hello everyone and thank you all involved in this excellent guide

After some time i found the courage to attempt to fix my 750Gb Seagate Barraccuda 7200.11.

Random ideas :

Is it by any chance an ES.2 drive?
http://www.msfn.org/...000000cc-state/
http://webcache.goog...0280569&ct=clnk

Did you try the Heads contacts OR the Motor ones?
http://www.mapleleaf...agatebrick.html

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(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.)

jaclaz

[DrThief]

Hard drive is now fixed and operational

To fix the LED:000000CE FAddr:00280569 error i got i just waited about 30 secs before pressing enter after typing Z in step 3:

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F3 2>Z

As for what went wrong in the first place: After screwing the PCB back and attempting this step

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Then press CTRL+Z again:

F3 2>U

i noticed that after pressing CTRL+Z hyperterminal returned to the F3 T prompt not the F3 2 one. I don't know if that is what is supposed to happen, since i' m a total newbie in using hyperterminal, but the direct guide here isn't very clear on that.

So i just typed /2 again and that took me to the F3 2 prompt. After that i followed the rest of the instructions.

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Did you try the Heads contacts OR the Motor ones?

I used the motor contacts method. I just removed the screw on the motor contacts and isolated them using a small paper card.

The cable i used was this one, in case anyone in the EU can't find a working cable. Installed and worked perfectly under windows 7.
I also used a small breadboard and some male-male and female-female jumpers to connect everything together. I only had to remove the small plastic bit on the end of the female-female jumpers because it wouldn't fit inside the small space where the hard drive sata pins are. I then covered the metal bits with some plastic tape for insulation.

Once again thanks everyone involved in making this thread and this guide!

[SpunkyMonkey]

Just checking to see if there are updates to the Unknown Diag Cmd Failure 12CC4 issue.

Like a handful of others in this thread I receive that message after executing the 'N1' command. I also receive it if I '/C' and then 'Q' to get the list of commands.

And, like the others with the same issue, I've followed the instructions explicitly and verified that it is SD15 firmware. I have two of the 1Gig models and both were purchased from Best Buy and were boxed for retail. However, the label on the drives say manufactured by Seagate for OEM distribution. Hmmm....

Thanks in advance.

[smandurlo]

I read to send the M0,2,2,,,,,22 cmd before N1 in this case to solve the problem.

[SpunkyMonkey]

smandurlo, on 09 January 2012 - 04:23 AM, said:

I read to send the M0,2,2,,,,,22 cmd before N1 in this case to solve the problem.

Just tried the suggestion. Prompt never returned. Waiting just short of an hour now for it to finish. Its ok though. I have 2 1 Gig drives and they have the same exact contents. I mirror them then break the mirror after backups. So if I super-brick one of them there is still the other.

[drVanny]

Thank you! for your post from italy

[ChevySS10424]

Another satified customer!!! Thank you to everyone who's posted information concerning this issue. It took three days working roughly 1.5 hours per day to fix. Yes a little slow but well worth the results. My biggest problem was getting the CA-42 wires hooked up right. There seems to be a bunch of CA-42 cables out there. See below for my setup. Once the wires were hooked up correctly the actual hyperterminal process was a snap.


My CA-42 steup. 5-wires (no battery(ies) needed)
Blue and yellow to HDD GND
Red to HDD RX
White to HDD TX
Black (not used)

Thanks again everyone. You ROCK!!!

v/r
ChevySS10424

[BlouBul]

ChevySS10424, on 11 January 2012 - 11:35 PM, said:

Another satified customer!!! Thank you to everyone who's posted information concerning this issue.

Glad you managed to fix it , BUT...

ChevySS10424, on 11 January 2012 - 11:35 PM, said:

My biggest problem was getting the CA-42 wires hooked up right. There seems to be a bunch of CA-42 cables out there. See below for my setup. Once the wires were hooked up correctly the actual hyperterminal process was a snap.

You could have saved yourself a lot of trouble if you read the instructions first. The colours of the wires are NOT important as it differ between manufacturers/ days of manufacturing and whatever colour was available during manufacturing. An easy way to identify them is given in the link in FGA #6. http://www.msfn.org/...647#entry945647 and http://buffalo.nas-c...RM9_Linkstation

[Blackan]

I'm on the final bit(F3 T>m0,2,2,,,,,22) and its been going for over 2 hours now.

The tutorial said up to 10 mins and others said it took about 1 hour.

I have the 1TB Seagate Hard drive, so is it normal for it to take this long?

[jaclaz]

Blackan, on 13 January 2012 - 02:55 AM, said:

I'm on the final bit(F3 T>m0,2,2,,,,,22) and its been going for over 2 hours now.

The tutorial said up to 10 mins and others said it took about 1 hour.

I have the 1TB Seagate Hard drive, so is it normal for it to take this long?

Wait a further 35 minutes, then unpower the thingy, test if by any chance it is now unbricked, if not re-do from start.

jaclaz

This post has been edited by jaclaz: 13 January 2012 - 04:13 AM

[Blackan]

Great.

Waited, powered down, checked it. Showed up in bio, but still didn't load OS. Plugged back into working pc, did the fix for 0 LBA problem, now its working.

Thank you very much.

[marcobid]

Thank you very much.

Ho sistemato il mio Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 da 500gb recuperando tutti i dati.
La Seafate mi ha chiesto per la riparazione del disco dalle 800 alle 1.300 euro, con la tua soluzione ho speso 20 euro compreso il cacciavite Torx 6

Great, Marco

[farafafafafa]

Hallo Y cant find the CA42 cabel,cab Y do it?whit USB cabel? please y nedd it thanks

[dsdeez83]

(I'm a Newbie)Hey Guys : I've read the threads and followed the instructions for what I believe is the 0 LBA error. I ran the bios and the HD shows up so I would believe that's the case. I run through the instructions with this http://www.ebay.com/...984.m1497.l2649 tool. I'm using a firewire to USB cable. The process i follow is the same as on thread #1, I power the HD after I have the hyperterminal configured and connected. I run the "m0,2,2,0,0,0,0,22" (enter) cmd and my results similar but the User Partition says : User Partition Format Successful - Elasped Time 0 mins 00 sec. I than power down, disconnect and move the HD to the PC and power up but I still get that same error. Your assistance is grately appreicated.

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[smandurlo]

@dsdeez83 your output is not normal, all the values in the first line are 00 and it is wrong. What was the problem? I believe you did something that ruined your access to stored data...

[dsdeez83]

smandurlo, on 18 January 2012 - 04:15 AM, said:

@dsdeez83 your output is not normal, all the values in the first line are 00 and it is wrong. What was the problem? I believe you did something that ruined your access to stored data...

My problem is my Seagate 7200.11 HDD wont boot, but in BIOS is it recognized. I also set it up as a Secondary HDD and it reflects in Windows as "0".

[dsdeez83]

dsdeez83, on 18 January 2012 - 04:24 PM, said:

smandurlo, on 18 January 2012 - 04:15 AM, said:

@dsdeez83 your output is not normal, all the values in the first line are 00 and it is wrong. What was the problem? I believe you did something that ruined your access to stored data...

My problem is my Seagate 7200.11 HDD wont boot, but in BIOS is it recognized. I also set it up as a Secondary HDD and it reflects in Windows as "0".

I also wanted to add, I have HP24 Firmware vs some of these threads showed a seagate firmware.

[farafafafafa]

please I need help .I ¨m using CA42 cabel y have black GND green und white tx und rx end one red no more.I connect blacr white and green I put power to de hdd but in the hyperteminal when I write dont show anything.Need I to conect 3V, and where only have I de red.please what can I do??

[jaclaz]

farafafafafa, on 19 January 2012 - 09:35 AM, said:

please I need help .I ¨m using CA42 cabel y have black GND green und white tx und rx end one red no more.I connect blacr white and green I put power to de hdd but in the hyperteminal when I write dont show anything.Need I to conect 3V, and where only have I de red.please what can I do??

READ FGA's:
http://www.msfn.org/...-720011-drives/
expecially #6 AND the link given

jaclaz

[BlouBul]

dsdeez83, on 18 January 2012 - 12:09 AM, said:

but the User Partition says : User Partition Format Successful - Elasped Time 0 mins 00 sec. I than power down, disconnect and move the HD to the PC and power up but I still get that same error. Your assistance is grately appreicated.

The only other thing I can think of that might work is to try the optional commands given by Aviko here

dsdeez83, on 18 January 2012 - 04:26 PM, said:

I also wanted to add, I have HP24 Firmware vs some of these threads showed a seagate firmware.

All HP firmware before HP26 suffer from the same symptoms (and uses the same fix)