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MANDR
 Post subject: WD Starling Head Disabling
PostPosted: January 30th, 2009, 9:47 
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I have a WD2500JB-00REA0 that clicks several times and powers down. I have entered Kernel mode and disabled head 5. disk now enters ready and can be identified. I have removed defects by head from appropriate head, cleared glist and recalculated translator based on plist alone, but disk still is not accessible.

Data is not important to me, I simply want to get the disk accessible again.

Am I missing something here?


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Zorb
 Post subject: Re: WD Starling Head Disabling
PostPosted: February 2nd, 2009, 0:46 
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It's a $40 drive. If you just want a working drive, that should still be under warranty.
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sempre
 Post subject: Re: WD Starling Head Disabling
PostPosted: February 3rd, 2009, 7:33 
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MANDR wrote:
I have a WD2500JB-00REA0 that clicks several times and powers down. I have entered Kernel mode and disabled head 5. disk now enters ready and can be identified. I have removed defects by head from appropriate head, cleared glist and recalculated translator based on plist alone, but disk still is not accessible.

Data is not important to me, I simply want to get the disk accessible again.

Am I missing something here?


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Hi! :mrgreen:
Used which tool and version? :?:
:idea:

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Starling
 Post subject: Re: WD Starling Head Disabling
PostPosted: February 3rd, 2009, 11:53 
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This method won't work if zone table is different between heads. Sabres are OK. Hawks are not. Not sure about Starlings.
You can view Zone table in PC3000.
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MANDR
 Post subject: Re: WD Starling Head Disabling
PostPosted: February 12th, 2009, 5:18 
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When vieweing Zone Table what am I looking for? Also can I modify this zone table to correspond with new head mapping of heads is disabled?
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Zorb
 Post subject: Re: WD Starling Head Disabling
PostPosted: February 12th, 2009, 8:27 
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Why fix this drive? It's a WD, therefore a paperweight.
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 Post subject: Re: WD Starling Head Disabling
PostPosted: February 12th, 2009, 8:37 
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Starling wrote:
This method won't work if zone table is different between heads. Sabres are OK. Hawks are not. Not sure about Starlings.
You can view Zone table in PC3000.

Starling vs "Starlings" :D

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Doomer
 Post subject: Re: WD Starling Head Disabling
PostPosted: February 12th, 2009, 9:47 
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Starling wrote:
This method won't work if zone table is different between heads. Sabres are OK. Hawks are not. Not sure about Starlings.
You can view Zone table in PC3000.

Mr. Starling I suggest you do not repeat stuff after AceLab guys. It may turn they are not right

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guru
 Post subject: Re: WD Starling Head Disabling
PostPosted: February 12th, 2009, 15:29 
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Have you formatted it with P-List?

I would rather do that myself

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Starling
 Post subject: Re: WD Starling Head Disabling
PostPosted: February 23rd, 2009, 12:57 
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Doomer wrote:
Mr. Starling I suggest you do not repeat stuff after AceLab guys. It may turn they are not right

What's your point?
You mean to say that Acelab guys are not sometimes wrong? I know that.
You mean to say that zone table is the same between the heads on all WD families? I know it's different on the newer families.
Or you mean to say this method of disabling heads does work on all WD drives? I think it does not.
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