Tag Archives: Seagate

PC-3000 HDD. Seagate F3. How to Deal With SenseCode = 87270000 Error.

Posted on 05/18/2018 by ACELab team

Hello Friends! Seagate drives are very popular, but they also have a lot of issues in their FW. In this article we will show you how to resolve one such issue: a strange SenseCode = 87270000 error, and get a … Continue reading →

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PC-3000 for HDD. Seagate F3. How to determine the Heads Preamp version

Posted on 01/26/2018 by ACELab team

During Seagate F3 drives data recovery process, engineers are often in need of donor heads. So how to find out the one compatible the most? There are different parameters that help to choose the correct donor head for a Head … Continue reading →

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PC-3000 for HDD. Seagate F3. Manual Translator recovery procedure. Track Defects.

Posted on 11/16/2017 by ACELab team

As you may know, Seagate F3 drives use different Defect-lists to hide defected sectors. These are single defect records and track-defect records. On how to hide single defects you can read in this article. In the current article, we will … Continue reading →

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PC-3000 for HDD. Seagate F3. The easier way to fix Init SMART Fail error

Posted on 09/21/2017 by ACELab team

Hello dear PC-3000 users! SMART has proven to be the powerful method for monitoring the state of the drive in need of repair. This system detects and reports on various indicators.is system detects and reports on various indicators. However, SMART is … Continue reading →

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PC-3000 for HDD. The password removing procedure for Seagate F3 drives

Posted on 08/04/2017 by ACELab team

Dear Friends, In this article, we would like to describe the procedure of password removing for Seagate F3 drive. We have tested this method for the Sapta15 family of Seagate F3 Architecture. However, this approach works for other families of Seagate … Continue reading →

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PC-3000 for HDD. The password removing procedure for old Seagate drives

Posted on 07/28/2017 by ACELab team

Dear Friends, In this article we would like to describe the procedure of password removing for old Seagate drive. We have tested this method for Night Hawk Plus family of Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 series. However, this approach works for other … Continue reading →

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PC-3000 HDD. Seagate F3 arch. Manually Translator recovery procedure

Posted on 05/29/2017 by ACELab team

A lot of times PC-3000 owners asked us about sharing step-by-step guide. One of the often problems on Seagate F3 architecture drives is a Translator problem. Usually we try to regenerate Translator automatically (by Translator regeneration and Recovery translator procedures). Basically … Continue reading →

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PC-3000 for HDD. Seagate F3. How to fix SIM Error 1009 RW Error 00000080 on Sentosa family

Posted on 03/27/2017 by ACELab team

Hello Friends, Some family of Seagate F3 drives has specific issue which you wil not see on other families. One of these issues we would like to show today.

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PC-3000 for HDD. Seagate F3. “MCMTFileHandler: EXCEPTION: Failed MCMT read request” error and how to fix it.

Posted on 03/17/2017 by ACELab team

Hello Friends! Recently we’ve got a case where we saw the next message in utility terminal tab after drive’s power on: MCMTFileHandler: EXCEPTION: Failed MCMT read request We see such cases pretty often here in support, so let’s see what … Continue reading →

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PC-3000 for HDD. Seagate F3. How to Stop Worrying and Set Max LBA

Posted on 02/27/2017 by ACELab team

This article provides a simple method for disk original size making and the analysis of hidden sectors, those LBAs undetected or improperly detected by PC-3000 or another software. The difference between “models” sectors (shown in Drive ID) and “the real … Continue reading →

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