Hello Gurus,
i read google extensively also tried the search function which for most of the results is dead. So here is my prob:
Got a Maxtor Diamondmax 16 4r080l0 80gb drive with firmware ramc1tu0 (printed on drive). Whenever the drive inits it makes clicking sounds.
1. How do i find out if this is a firmware issue as mentioned on many pages for these fantastic drives ?
The Disk is recognized by BIOS (which gives a hd failure) and all the tools as Maxtor Falcon with Firmware ramc26uz (hope i spelled it right).
2. There is no burnt chip on the pcb everything looks fine. i found some spots on the pcb wich are labelled as 'test' etc, thinking it could be possible to do some measurements there. of course i dont know howto, any idea ?
3. Is there any chance to bring the drive back to live ?
4. I also heard about some tool thats able to rewrite firmware to the drive w/o pci3k. is that true/available anywhere ?
5. I do not have loaders for the ramc1tu0 nor do i have an original fw update by maxtor (is there one for this drive at all ?). Only i found is a quite similar loader for the same drive (80 gb dmax16 etc) with code ram
b1tu0. would this one be compatible to my drive ?
6abc. Also i read some things bout cleaning g-list and p-list. did i understand that right that a cleant drive would have kinda previrgin state ? does it then learn the defects from scratch ? which tool could do cleaning ?
sorry for all the questions, but i am that curious...
regards,
michael