Dug out another faulty disk to experiment with
Don’t need the data, but would be nice to resurrect the drive
WD2500JB
Spins up ok
BIOS and Victora sees the disk id and details and size right
but OS doesn’t see the drive
Remained like this ok for an hour or two, even though the drive got noticeably hot, and ok through a couple of reboots
Didn’t bother trying any sector reads or scan
went straight to secure erase, via Victoria, to ‘clean up’ and scan the media in the assumption it would re-map out any bad areas and/or help physically re-init the drive
The secure erase, which temporarily sets the ata password, indicated the password operation failed
but continued to run (although can’t tell if was actually doing anything)
After 90 minutes the drive emitted head reseek noises
Not sure if this was due to the secure erase or any original issue or overheating
Power cycle and drive spins up, get reseek noises and spins down
(only spins down if IDE cable attached, stays spinning if no IDE cable attached)
Victoria now show it as
WDC WDC2500 no serial number “LBA not supported” CHS 8MB Failed
ie no longer recognised properly
(this was with the ide cable attached obviously, and the same both with it spinning and when spun down)
Anyone any thoughts ?
Head/preamp issue or just a firmware issue ?
And could the secure erase have affected it or was that just a coincidence ?
Someone else had an issue with spindown only if IDE cable attached.
wd2500jb-was-clunking-and-running-hot-t8447.html Can anyone explain that ?
Thanks