P-List on 500GB IBM VLA3

[acforensics]

Hi Gang,

This drive stays busy for long periods of time before it responds. So I check and I have what looks like a corrupt P-List. Many of the entries are repeated, many are 0 and they number above 65000. Any clever ways of getting rid of the repeated entried? Download the P-List and start editing with a hex editor? Save then upload?

Thanks for any input.

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[Doomer]

use factory copy
BTW what did you use to check PList entries? PList is kinda tricky on IBM drives.

[acforensics]

Duh. I should have thought of that! The SA-C. I used Salvation Data IBM/Hitachi Doctor.

Thanks for the jolt of logic.

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[honglake]

Duh. I should have thought of that! The SA-C. I used Salvation Data IBM/Hitachi Doctor.

Thanks for the jolt of logic.

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Does the Salvation Data IBM/Hitachi Doctor repair your HDD perfectly?

[hddguy]

Duh. I should have thought of that! The SA-C. I used Salvation Data IBM/Hitachi Doctor.

Thanks for the jolt of logic.

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Does the Salvation Data IBM/Hitachi Doctor repair your HDD perfectly?

I have been considering getting the Hitachi HD Doctor simply because it allows disk to initialise from alternative SA copies. Is this feature any good?

[acforensics]

Honglake - it's worked well for me so far. It works very well for diagnosis. One of my favorite features is the ability to click on a module and see the data as well as do a head test, and also view user area sectors.

hddguy - If you are talking about the feature to bypass bad loaders and use other loaders, yes, it is nice. Data Compass has this capability too. They are supposedly going to add the ability in DC to load other drives too(WD, Maxtor, etc.). We'll see.

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[honglake]

acforensics,DC is really very nice,but sometimes some problems can only solved by other tools such as HD doctor,i think...
i am a new guy for HDD,maybe some ideas are not correct,so pls kindly feel free to correct me if i am wrong,many thanks

[HeadCrash]

Here you go again, Honglake registered yesterday seems to me promoting DC, maybe one of SD staff.

[honglake]

i just wanna to learn more knowlegde

[acforensics]

FYI - this drive was a seized spindle motor.

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