John Ferrell wrote:

> BTW, I seem to have lost access to my Hard drive that has my LTSpice=20
> collection on it...
> any hints on data recovery are appreciated. Drive has been moved to=20
> another computer without success...
> It is a 500G IDE Seagate.

If its one of the 7200.11 series with the bad firmware, firmware level=20
S15, you are screwed.
You have to find an identical drive that has not had too many hours on=20
it, update it's firmware, then swap out the electronics. Apparently the=20
cause is the error log filling up and then turning the drive into a brick.

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/seagate-hard-drive-firmware-bricked,6889.h=
tml
http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/feedback/seagate_hd_failures.html

http://seagate.custkb.com/seagate/crm/selfservice/search.jsp?DocId=3D211071=
&NewLang=3Den

A firmware issue has been identified that affects a small number of=20
Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 hard drive models which may result in data=20
becoming inaccessible after a power-off/on operation. The affected=20
products are Barracuda 7200.11, Barracuda ES.2 SATA, and DiamondMax 22.

SMALL is a relative term. We have had 7 such drives die here, all within=20
days of each other because of course the drives were on 24x7 in our servers=
..

Others have called it a plague.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/01/16/barracuda_failure_plague/
"A 17-page thread about this firmware failure problem is going strong on=20
a Seagate forum. Frustrated users have complained that postings and=20
threads have been removed by moderators."

"Seagate recently reduced its bare drive warranty period, raising some=20
doubts about product quality standards."



I have stopped buying Seagate because of this forum censorship and other=20
'poor quality' issues. Unfortunate since they did USED to make good drives.

R


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