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    How to access Seagate COM Terminal with Arduino mega as a USB TTL Adapter and PuTTY

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    Accessing Seagate Hardrive Recovery/Diagnostics Ports:

    The ports are shown here:

    Seagate hard drive recovery and diagnostics ports

    These ports need to be connected to a USB to TTL Adapter. In my previous post How to use Arduino mega as a USB TTL Adapter, I wrote about using Arduino as a TTL Adapter. We are going to connect these ports to Arduino as below:

    Accessing the terminal with PUTTY

    After turning on the Arduino, find out the COM port from the device manager.

    Enter the following settings in PuTTY:

    In my case the port was COM3. Click on open and you should be good to go!

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