fujimax wrote:
Many seem to struggle with this utility - here also.
You establish that there are many modules and you read that it's
the P-List, the G-List, the DMCS and corrupted headers with corrupted copies.
Often the loader won't work - even a loader written from a perfectly working drive does not work on itself.
Then you find some tricks - combine HDDL and pcmx - still problems.
Just finding a possible compatible *.ldr file can be fun - which loader file works with your drive - how do you tell ?
Now you also have a choice of Safe mode and Standard mode.
So all of this is mastered but still the success rate is low !
Ah, the fujis were so easy - constant module names, easy to pick the necessary file to read / write and quite easy success.
The Maxtors - one F/W read gives bad results, immediate following read gives better results.
Great - P-List & G-List does good ID, chksum - but no success.
Where to from here. - Table 2 - Part No ?? no module name to match with output files which are in UBA:Size format.
OK, match the UBA:Size format to PN - easy.
But wait you were working on an N40P and you found :
46600004.rpm is the HDD components information - good info here.
OK, so now you working with Romulus and you want that same good info to see - but where is this file - gone - NO !
For the Romulus this file is : 32390004.rpm
32390004.rpm Romulus HDD components
3CFE0004.rpm Calipso
46600004.rpm Ares C64, N40P
3B990004.rpm Athena DSP
What is the good info in these files ? :
You want a loader for your problem Maxtor - but which one, will it work ?
Important info on your drive is : pcba_pn - like B9FDB
without this matching number loader probably won't work.
So when you get your loader and modules files from someone, check the relevant files - can save a lot of time with wrong loader.
After all of this - still the Maxtor won't come alive for the valuable data.
Now to choose which module is really faulty and the corresponding file name - writing them all from another drive probably won't work.
Lastly, you are english and your version 120 can't do what russian 107 can do (huh ?) - true. So you must start learning cyrillic - thinking in english and transreading in russian can cause errors - but you will get there.
Anyone have the russian 120, 121 - maybe I can do with this.
btw. : try loading loader - fails - warm reboot - try again
(use russian version - english version loads nothing, even the best loader)
and try loader again - works sometimes.
If you don't know what I talkin about - you ain't done nothing yet !
Wow you had these problems