Hold hold, I would be very careful of opening the case up and swapping the PCB at this point. Seagate offered free data recovery for drives affected by the SD15 firmware. I would strongly recommend you call Seagate take them up on the offer first. On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 09:33, <dman [ at ] lanhouse [ dot ] ca> wrote: > 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 >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Linux mailing list >> Linux [ at ] lists [ dot ] oclug [ dot ] on [ dot ] ca >> http://oclug.on.ca/mailman/listinfo/linux >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Linux mailing list >> Linux [ at ] lists [ dot ] oclug [ dot ] on [ dot ] ca >> http://oclug.on.ca/mailman/listinfo/linux >> > > _______________________________________________ > Linux mailing list > Linux [ at ] lists [ dot ] oclug [ dot ] on [ dot ] ca > http://oclug.on.ca/mailman/listinfo/linux > > -- The best compliment you could give Pythian for our service is a referral.