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WD1003FBYX: Will a PCB swap help in this case?

March 23rd, 2015, 20:46

Hi,

I have a WD1003FBYX drive that died on me and now I'm trying to identify what failed in that drive and if a PCB swap will help to repair the drive.

When connected to PC, the drive appears to be vibrating a bit so I guess the plates are spinning. From time to time the drive make a kind of chirping sound. In the log I see the following:

Mar 23 19:46:25 tst kernel: [247382.412662] ata1: exception Emask 0x10 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x90202 action 0xe frozen
Mar 23 19:46:25 tst kernel: [247382.412673] ata1: irq_stat 0x00400000, PHY RDY changed
Mar 23 19:46:25 tst kernel: [247382.412683] ata1: SError: { RecovComm Persist PHYRdyChg 10B8B }
Mar 23 19:46:25 tst kernel: [247382.412697] ata1: hard resetting link
Mar 23 19:46:29 tst kernel: [247385.828145] ata1: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300)
Mar 23 19:46:29 tst kernel: [247385.932774] ata1.00: configured for UDMA/133
Mar 23 19:46:29 tst kernel: [247385.948126] ata1: EH complete

Any ideas? Thanks
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