My beloved hard disk failed. It's worked for years. Anyway, most files are
backed up but I will loose some recet pictures. I took it to a shop for
possible recovery. No rush... I told them to take their time. It was a slave
drive- had the swap file, MS Office, music and pictures.

Two days ago I walked away from the system for a few minutes. When I return,
Windows XP had a blue/black screen fatal error. I had to restart. The
seagate scsi drive is not detected any more. A bus scan through the adapter
bios doesn't see the disk. It did not make any warning noises. I believe it
is a firmware failure. I would like to understand the process.
Can the disk be saved and re-used? What method is utilized if it is a
firmware malfunction?

I suppose I'l be happy if I can get an image. If the costs is too much I'll
just loose some vacation pictures.

Thank you for you comments.

"Gary I." wrote:
If the SCSI interface isn't working any more, you can't update the
firmware without special equipment. You only can try to change the
complete SCSI controller. Because parts of the firmware may be stored on
disk media, it should be an identical controller from another disk (same
model, ideally with same firmware version).


Micha
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