ST3500320AS

[DDDRI]

Seeing a large number of Seagates come in with damaged Smart data files that can not be cleared or written over.

I am getting this also on these drives:

Reading autotuning buffer............... Ok
Searching module table in RAM........... Ok
Searching volume 3 file table in RAM.... Ok
Searching volume 0 file table in RAM.... Ok
Searching SMP RAM FID in RAM............ Ok
Searching Non Resident G-List FID in RAM Ok
Searching CFW OVL FID in RAM............ Error
Searching DT table(RAM, WR) in RAM...... Ok
Searching DT table(RAM, RD) in RAM...... Ok

Is there any other fix for this beyond changing hard drive ram ID to turn off smart and imaging slowly in DE?