The Hard drive was originally used as network attached storage via Linksys NSLU2. Capable But Command Failed' or some other hard drive error on boot. If you attempt to boot up from such drive or read any data from it you would get 'Primary Master Hard Disk Fail' or 'No operating system found' or 'USB Device malfunctioned' error or 'S.M.A.R.T. when holding it next to the ear you might hear slight ticking or scratching noise as if motor tries to spin up but cannot.drive spins up with loud grinding/buzzing/rattling/whirring noise:, or in worst case it appears to be dead and doesn't spin up at all.We see this hard drive failure since 2007 with its peak later that year. Main problem with Toshiba drives so far is bad quality of bearings lubricant in some of the 2.5 inch families(most often GAS and GAX). Toshiba is represented on HDD market with laptop and SCSI drives. Does this repeated as if it were looking for the firmware and can't find it. I attempted to swap the PCB from another drive of the same model and the drive does spin up with the new board but then clicks a little and spins back down.
