how do I restore the firmware to my Maxtor drive recognized as ATHENA.

20Gig
WAH21PBZ

I am trying to use pcmx_dsp but always error
- drive does not report ready in 15 sec.

I suspect that pcmx seeks drive at address 0x100 but only have standard controllers at address 0x1f0 and 0x170.

Using drive in safe mode at secondary master controller [II]
...

Posted 2004-08-26, 08:34:

OK. MHDD v2.9 sees the drive [3] Secondary Master.
This is giving me hope.

Bur when I press F2,

Maxtor ATHENA Firmware: WAH21PBZ LBA's: 40021444

Device Reset... OK
Setting Drive Parameters... FAIL
Recalibrate... FAIL

Can MHDD help me here ?

nope, mhdd doesn't work with maxtor's system area.

OK, thank you Dmitry for the answer.

I sure would like to take the time and learn more about MHDD. But for now, I have a Maxtor to restore before shipping it back to Mac Store...

Regards,

please contact me,i can help you

you must be in safty mode and wrtite LDR and RAM file then pc3k can recognize it .after that write modul may be ok .from your description, i think your hdd is not so bad and you can fix it by yourself

I finally gave up on the idea of repairing the drive. My only wish was to retreive my client's usefull data. It finally happened 4 weeks ago with the help of a professional data recovery service. If you ask me, it cost wayyyyy too much but then again, I wasn't able to succeed...

The drive was promptly shipped back to MacStore for warranty service/exchange. Last friday, I had a "delivery notice" in my mailbox from carrier service to call them back so they could deliver a package from Maxtor. So I should get more news about this drive sometime this week.

Cheers all,