It only works to prevent the problem. Once the drive has died, in my
experience, it was not recoverable. I also had several of these drives.
When I had one die, I think it wasn't even seen by the manufacture's tools
(or the computer's BIOS).
However, you may be able to recover it better than I could. I think we
did try swapping the PCB with a working drive at work. I can't remember
if that worked or not...
I didn't look into the problem because I had all the data backed up. I'm
assuming that isn't the case? If you do have a back-up, I would go that
route rather than try to fix the drive.
Good luck,
Dennis
On Sun, 30 Jan 2011, Robert Echlin wrote:
Hi Neil,
At a former employer a couple of years ago, I bought 8 drives with I think that same problem in firmware.
The solution was to install the firmware upgrade.
I don't know if that let's you recover the drive, or if it only allows you to prevent the problem.
Rob
--- On Sun, 1/30/11, neil <neil [ at ] magma [ dot ] ca> wrote:
From: neil <neil [ at ] magma [ dot ] ca>
Subject: [OCLUG-Tech] Problem
To: linux [ at ] oclug [ dot ] on [ dot ] ca
Received: Sunday, January 30, 2011, 12:09 PM
Hi,
I've got a problem looking for a possible Linux solution.
I have had an internal Seagate 500 G hard drive (SATA) in my Windows XP
computer (less than 2 years), where my data is stored.
The OS has stopped recognizing it, but it still spins. I found out that the
hard drive firmware (SD15)was faulty on these hard drives and eventually
they stop functioning properly.
My cousin suggested that I might be able to use Linux to read the data where
Windows cannot. He has Linux, but is not familiar on how to try to retrieve
the data.
Is there some simple instructions or someone who can assist in this
recovery?
I was hoping to find out ASAP if this can be done, as I will have to look to
alternative solutions if it is not possible.
Thank you for any help you can offer.
Neil (Blacher)
613-228-2277
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