. Before installing the hard drive, please write down the 8 character serial number and the 14 digit part number information. If you ever need to contact Maxtor Support, you must provide this information about your hard drive prior to assistance. Introduction Thank you for selecting a Maxtor hard drive product. Seagate date code calculator. Seagate data code calculator is web application that calculates gregorian date based on seagate data code on your hard drive. Calculator will help you determine age of the drive, and if it is still under warranty. Date Code Shape: YYWD or YYWWD. YY: fiscal year, beginning on the 1st Saturday of July YY-1. W 1-9. Locate an available Serial ATA (SATA) port on your motherboard or on a SATA PCI card and plug in one end of the SATA interface cable. Locate the SATA port on the rear of the hard drive and plug in the SATA interface cable as shown. Page 11 If you have an existing installation of Windows 2000 or XP, you must install a Windows driver for.

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For Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 Drives

Symptoms: Drive spins, doesn't make strange noises, but cannot be detected by the computer, or is detected as 0MB. Usually the problem is the firmware, but sometimes it could be problems with physical parts on the drive (circuit board, platters, etc).

For Seagate Barracuda 7200.12, Momentus 5400.6, Momentus 7200.4 Drives

Symptoms: Drive spins, doesn't make strange noises, but cannot be detected by the computer. Behringer xr18 software download mac. Sometimes it is the firmware, oftentimes this can be caused by other parts of the drive, however.

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The firmware brick problem is a well known problem for Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 and later drives, and the information gathered here are from a variety of excellent sources, for example: https://sites.google.com/site/seagatefix/

While these procedures are straightforward, they do carry risks. If you are uncomfortable, please stop and seek a data recovery professional!

January 17th, 2014, 11:01

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Hi,
I am trying to access the serial port of a Seagate Self Encrypted Drive ST320LT014 with firmware 0001DEM7 but the serial port appears to be disabled.
Please note I have tried with several similar drives and I get the same errors as described below, all drives are working fine and it makes no difference if they are encrypted or not. The serial port always seems to be disabled.
I would like to know if anyone could help and if you know of a way to enable the serial port on those drives (i.e.: a secret factory handshake? because the standard CTRL+z does not work)
The reason I want to access the serial port is because I want to see what is in memory of those SED HDD board. I read a few articles stating that with older encrypted drives (and not SED) it was possible to extract the passwords from the HDD board memory. I’d like to check if that’s the case for those SED drives. Obviously, if the serial port is disabled then those articles/technics may not apply!
I can connect to the serial port OK (through a USB to TTL with the correct Rx/Tx connection) but I am getting the following errors:
1. If the drive is only powered and there are no DATA cable connected, with any key I press I am getting: (00h) -Serial Port Not Ready
2. If the drive is powered on AND there is a data cable connected, with any key I press I am getting: (1Ah) -TCG Serial Port Disabled
I am no electronic guru, I tried to unscrew the drive board and look for some “transistor” but cannot find anything obvious nor do I really know what to look for!
So really, I am just wondering if there is a way to either re-enable that serial port, or other means to access that HDD board memory to see how the drive password is stored.
(when the drive is locked, you get a prompt for a password at boot).
Thanks!
XorSum

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