viinikala wrote:Mine stopped working after just _2 days_!
Symptoms exactly as others describe them. No hints of any problem whatsoever, suddenly the drive just died off and isn't talking to the controller.
BUT - my firmware is CC32!
Tried switching the PCB with another, exact same drive - didn't help.
ST2000DL003
P/N: 9VT166-301
F/W: CC32
DATE: 11311
SITE: SU
Bought in the Czech Republic.
It's getting wors. 
Have you tried to put the dead drive's PCB to a good drive? Does the dead drive spin up or totally dead?
I really hope that mine is not going to die.
ST2000DL003
P/N: 9VT166-301
F/W: CC32
DATE: 11303
SITE: WU
Well no offence to you ppl but I think you got various things wrong about harddrives.
First of all the firmware is stored on the drive itself. Not on the PCB! Replacing it is useless in this case.
If the bios lookup fails you are done!
No way of updating the firmware anymore.
Very terrific that now even CC32 drives are reported to do the magic fade away trick 
The only chance of getting access back is this:
http://hddhelp.com.ua/7200-12.htm
But i doubt an average private person would want to deal with that.
And if you got a pile of drives like me you surely wont.
ALL HAIL SEAGATE FOR THIS GLORIOUS DRIVE MODEL!
SG_is_beta wrote:Well no offence to you ppl but I think you got various things wrong about harddrives.
First of all the firmware is stored on the drive itself. Not on the PCB! Replacing it is useless in this case.
If the bios lookup fails you are done!
No way of updating the firmware anymore.
Very terrific that now even CC32 drives are reported to do the magic fade away trick
The only chance of getting access back is this:
http://hddhelp.com.ua/7200-12.htm
But i doubt an average private person would want to deal with that.
And if you got a pile of drives like me you surely wont.
ALL HAIL SEAGATE FOR THIS GLORIOUS DRIVE MODEL!
If it's true then why doesn't work Drive 2 with Drive 1's PCB?
I really hope that drives made at site WU are less problematic.
