Checking out 6 flea market hard drives with HDAT2 and SpinRite (do-over)

Reupload, now with MOAR VOLUME! It's up by 150% or something. My camera wasn't great, and I edit with headphones so sometimes the volume level's a bit low. Sorry. I got a better camera so I'm using that on newer videos. I couldn't figure out how to just re-upload the video so I just redid the whole thing. It's not like there were any comments that anything other than "can't hear you" or similar, so nothing of value was lost.
So here's my basic process for checking and testing newly acquired drives, and for diagnosing drives that are presenting problems. First, I start with HDAT2 v4.5.3 (from the Ultimate Boot CD 5.1.1 (www.ultimatebo...)) to check basic SMART parameters and run a wipe. DO NOT USE HDAT2 for a read/write/read/verify test as it may corrupt data on a questionable disk where you want to save data. Plus it's not as good as SpinRite's Level 4 read/invert write/read/rewrite/read/verify process (and SpinRite gives way more live data during the tests), so if the disk's SMART status checks alright and it wipes error-free in HDAT2, it goes to SpinRite where it's more thoroughly scanned.
While the Ultimate Boot CD and HDAT2 are free tools, SpinRite is not; it costs about $90 (or less with upgrades from previous versions; www.grc.com). Still, it's effective enough that if you do this regularly it's worth the price.
As mentioned, though, these programs work best with Core 2/LGA775 or AM2 or earlier systems.
Anyway this one's not very exciting, just an overview of what I do to check drives and how I may come to the conclusion that a drive that may appear outwardly ok may in fact be better off as the subject of an autopsy video. I don't actually try to do any data recovery though since the subject drive (unrelated to these 6) totally failed before filming, so just ignore that part.
I have a more thorough video on hard disk utilities if you care to watch it.

[@McVaio]

14:00 Did you check if the jumper of the IBM drive was correctly configured (master/slave/single drive)?

[@fsfs555]

Yep. I tried a couple different configurations and still no joy. I suspect an electronics failure that prevents the drive from coming ready. Good idea to check though, it's easy to overlook.