New problems with Seagate Barracuda LP Family drives,  fist symptoms are very similar to Seagate family 7200.11 with LED:0000000CC problem but in LP drives firmware locks itself and none of the solution commands cannot reach service area like it was in previous version. At this moment we are investigating hard drive model Seagate Barracuda LP ST2000DL003 P/N 9VT166-300 with firmware version CC31 site code WU PCB model 100617465 REV A.

ST2000DL003 PN 9VT166-300 fw cc31

When you start the drive terminal output is:Rst 0x40MRW: Disc Ctlr Initialization Completed.MC Internal LPC Process(P) SATA Reset(P) SATA Reset SIM Error 3005RW Error 00000080User Data Base  009916A0MCMainPOR: Start: MCInitialize: Start:  Buffer Words VBM: 00000210MCMainPOR: EXCEPTION: MC Init Fail.  Feature disabled.MCMainPOR: MCTBufferPtr->Header.MCStateFlagsDisc = E59FF018MCMainPOR: MCTBufferPtr->Header.MCTStateFlags = 0000F018MCMainPOR: MCStateFlags = 00000000MCMainPOR: EXCEPTION: POR Failed GeneralNo HOST FIS-ReadyStatusFlags 0002A1A5ESLIP modeRst 0x40MRW: Disc Ctlr Initialization Completed. MC Internal LPC Process(P) SATA Reset(P) SATA ResetSIM Error 3005RW Error 00000080User Data Base  009916A0MCMainPOR: Start: MCInitialize: Start:  Buffer Words VBM: 00000210MCMainPOR: EXCEPTION: MC Init Fail.  Feature disabled.MCMainPOR: MCTBufferPtr->Header.MCStateFlagsDisc = E59FF018MCMainPOR: MCTBufferPtr->Header.MCTStateFlags = 0000F018MCMainPOR: MCStateFlags = 00000000
MCMainPOR: EXCEPTION: POR Failed GeneralNo HOST FIS-ReadyStatusFlags 0002A1A5
LED:000000BD FAddr:00004C51

Solution to the problem is announced by Seagate Manufacture Engineers and it will be revealed at the end of August 2012. Do you have experience with those problems? If YES please share it with us.