Thursday, 24 February 2011

Seagate 7200.12 ‘SIM ERROR’ Firmware Fault

The symptoms of ‘SIM Error’ firmware fault from hard drives belong to Seagate 7200.12 family are:

1. Hard drive status keeps BUSY forever after switching on;

2. In the serial command line, it outputs (when PCB is attached to hard drive):

SIM Error 3005
No HOST FIS-ReadyStatusFlags 2002A1A5
ASCII Diag mode

3. In the serial command line, it outputs (when PCB is detached from hard drive):

No HOST FIS-ReadyStatusFlags 2002A1A5

To use the conventional method of fixing a ‘BUSY and LBA=0’ 7200.11 hard drive, it outputs:

No HOST FIS-ReadyStatusFlags 2002A1A5
ASCII Diag mode
F3 T>/2
F3 2>Z
Spin Down Complete
Elapsed Time 6.015 secs
F3 2>
ASCII Diag mode
F3 T>/2
F3 2>U
HighPowerMode
ExecuteSpinRequest
Spin Up Complete
Elapsed Time 3.624 secs
F3 2>/1
F3 1>N1
Init SMART Fail

The initialization of SMART module is failed even though the hard drive passes the Spin up and Spin down operation. To solve this problem, instead of doing N1 to clear the SMART after comand U, we use command m0 first.

(P) SATA Reset

SIM Error 3005
No HOST FIS-ReadyStatusFlags 2002A1A5
ASCII Diag mode

F3 T>/2

F3 2>Z

Spin Down Complete
Elapsed Time 6.035 secs
F3 2>U

HighPowerMode
ExecuteSpinRequest

Spin Up Complete
Elapsed Time 3.573 secs
F3 2>/

F3 T>m0,2,2,,,,,22
Max Wr Retries = 00, Max Rd Retries = 00, Max ECC T-Level = 16, Max Certify Rewr
ite Retries = not supported

User Partition Format Successful - Elapsed Time 0 mins 00 secs

F3 T>/1

F3 1>N1

Clear SMART is completed.
F3 1>
Rst 0x08M
(P) SATA Reset


Written by: Zijian Xie (R&D Manager, MSc,BEng)

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14 comments:

  1. #!dhilip#!!5 June 2011 at 05:12

    Hi when i connect my 7200.12 hdd using CA 42 cable.. With PCB i am getting led00000 cc error continuosly..it seems the hdd is in busy state...when i detach the PCB & in hyperterminal when i press ctrl + z .. i am not getting the F3 T prompt... i have tried swapping the wire..still no use... Can you please help me what will be the problem?? is there any issue in cable ?

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  2. #!dhilip#!!5 June 2011 at 08:04

    This the error Code:

    LED:000000CC FAddr:000075A5

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  3. essay17 June 2011 at 04:40

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  5. Josh15 July 2011 at 05:13

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  6. mayyit26 January 2012 at 06:07

    Thanks for the added part about the m0 command having to be issued first.

    In my case I have a ST32000641AS and couldn't communicate with the PCB if the hard drive motor or head contacts were disconnected. So basically I didn't (need to) do that step as described in other guides.

    Relieved now that I have access to my data.

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  7. Unknown3 June 2012 at 02:48

    ASCII Diag mode

    F3 T>/2

    F3 2>Z

    HighPowerMode
    Spin Down Complete
    Elapsed Time 0.109 msecs
    F3 2>U

    HighPowerMode
    ExecuteSpinRequest

    Spin Up Complete
    Elapsed Time 6.143 secs
    F3 2>/

    F3 T>M0,2,2,,,,,22

    Failed to load overlay 00000004
    LED:000000CC FAddr:002884A1



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  8. Unknown12 June 2012 at 03:26

    The post is written in very a good manner and it has lot of constructive information for me.
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  9. Todaytips10 October 2013 at 02:50

    DiagError 00006008
    Spin Error
    Elapsed Time 19.537 secs
    R/W Status 2 R/W Error 84150180

    i had this error.i refer all document,that are said tight screws and check head.
    but all are perfect
    please help me
    thank u...................

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  10. Unknown26 August 2014 at 06:04

    Thank you for this post. The same procedure worked with Seagate Barracuda Green 2TB ST2000DL001 (LP 5900.2 family):

    Rst 0x20M
    RW: Disc Ctlr Initialization Completed.
    SIM Error 203F
    RW Error 00000080
    No HOST FIS-ReadyStatusFlags 0002A1A5
    ASCII Diag mode

    F3 T>/2
    F3 2>Z
    Spin Down Complete
    Elapsed Time 14.514 secs

    F3 2>U
    ExecuteSpinRequest
    Spin Up Complete
    Elapsed Time 7.682 secs

    F3 2>/1
    F3 1>N1
    Init SMART Fail
    LED:000000BD FAddr:00004C51
    LED:000000BD FAddr:00004C51
    LED:000000BD FAddr:00004C51




    Rst 0x20M
    RW: Disc Ctlr Initialization Completed.
    SIM Error 203F
    RW Error 00000080
    No HOST FIS-ReadyStatusFlags 0002A1A5
    ASCII Diag mode

    F3 T>/2
    F3 2>Z
    Spin Down Complete
    Elapsed Time 14.515 secs

    F3 2>U
    ExecuteSpinRequest
    Spin Up Complete
    Elapsed Time 7.745 secs

    F3 2>/
    F3 T>m0,2,2,,,,,22
    Max Wr Retries = 00, Max Rd Retries = 00, Max Iterations = 01, Max Certify Rewrite Retries = 2DF8
    User Partition Format Successful - Elapsed Time 0 mins 00 secs
    Zone re-format was skipped.

    F3 T>/1
    F3 1>N1
    Clear SMART is completed.

    F3 1>/2
    F3 2>Z
    Spin Down Complete
    Elapsed Time 14.513 secs
    F3 2>





    Rst 0x20M
    RW: Disc Ctlr Initialization Completed.
    (P) SATA Reset
    ASCII Diag mode

    F3 T>/2
    F3 2>Z
    Spin Down Complete
    Elapsed Time 14.515 secs
    F3 2>

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  12. Unknown26 December 2017 at 20:27

    Please dont give above commands to newer hard disks. THE WHOLE HARD DISK WILL BECOME BAD SECTORS.

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  13. Иван18 December 2018 at 06:34

    Отличный форум! Мне очень помогло.

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