Do you have access to a pc to format it again? Or perhaps a old Amiga. You can clear a partition or disk with linux installers. I cant recommend anything on the macOS but the Mandrake ppc installer has a funky formatter, maybe it can help. Nice to see Seagate techs recommend whats actually on their website. :)
Thanks for the tech support quote. I couldn't find anything to snip. Good luck. craig o'donnell wrote: >I've got two Seagates, and one got somehow hung up and everything had >to be rebooted during a format. It was a working, though blank, >Windows formatted drive prior to this minor peccadillo. > >I have fiddled with a half a dozen formatters and SCSI prying >programs and sent the error messages to Seagate tech support. > >Seagate tech support says: > ><< > the 03/31 sense code indicates a corrupted format. The drive can't read > its own handwriting. It happens, and the solution is a low-level format. > > Now it gets a bit more complicated. The drive showing no capacity, along > with the 03/31 is the symptom you get when a drive is being low-level > formatted and is interrupted before it completes. there is a field that > is filled in at the end of the format that shows the last logical block > address available on the drive. This is the field that is used in the > read capacity command, and the field that is used by the controller to > assign a translation to the drive. Needless to say, if the format is > interrupted, this field does not get filled in. > > The end result is typically that since the controller cannot see a > capacity, it will not start a low-level format from its bios. Dead in the > water. > > The only fix I am aware of is the SeaTools Enterprise Edition utility on > our website (which is windows or Linux compatible, nothing for the Mac) > has a format utility that was specifically designed to overcome this, and > will force the low level format. > > Bottom line, you might have to degrade yourself to accessing a windows > system to successfully low level format the drive. > > > >Question: will Hard Disk Toolkit allow me to force such a format? I >have HDT 1.-something which I haven't used in many years and have to >dig the diskettes out from some bin. I doubt 1.x will do this (but I >don't know for sure). > > > Next question: any other suggestions? > > > -- Quadlist is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Quadlist info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/quadlist.shtml> The FAQ: <http://macfaq.org/> Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/quadlist%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
