[geeks] Seagate vendor-unique data?

[Lex Landa]

Hello Mouse,

On Tue, 2012-01-24 at 13:16 -0500, Mouse wrote:

> (I found two PDF files,
> http://www.seagate.com/staticfiles/support/disc/manuals/scsi/100293068a.pdf
> and http://www.seagate.com/support/disc/manuals/scsi/67517c.pdf;
> perhaps I missed something, but when searching for "vendor" I didn't
> find anything useful.)

Same here - searching for 'vendor' just returns a lot of sites who want
to sell you hard drives.

I had a look for service manuals and ended up going into the ATA command
structure and trying to suss out what the drive was 'saying' - but it
wasn't useful.  What I managed to glean from the above information is
that it appears to be a firmware failure, which doesn't pinpoint the
specific error.  I looked at the CDB and apart from knowing that the
drive was given a WRITE command, I couldn't find anything else.

The SCSI manual (67517c.pdf) above says that ASC 0x80/ASCQ 0x00 means
'General Firmware Error Qualifier'.

Lex