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I've got a few 80GB Hitachi PLAT drives. One was OK and the others with PCB missing. I tried the PCB from the good dirve to the others with no success. When returned the PCB to the original drive it didn't initialised. Obviously, the NVRAM data has been changed. Any sugestions how to read/write NVRAM on this drive and to return the drive to working condition?

Hi BGMan,

I remember a post from pepe where he said that when changing pcb's from ibm or hitachi a bit could be altered which made the pcb not working.
Just changing this bit would restore the functionality.
However, i cant remember which bit it is. I think you should look at the forum of Ace, i think i found it there.
Also for changing the nvram, i think only two possibilities: Pc3000 or programmer.

Best regards,

Dobre

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Is there any version of PC-3000 ISA that can handle such drives?

no pc3k isa cannot handle such drives .