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Samsung HM250HI

September 26th, 2011, 8:26

Patient is clicking, I changed heads, but the patient is still clicking. (The heads are now back in donor which is functioning just fine, so the swapping should have been ok.) Any hints?

Re: Samsung HM250HI

September 26th, 2011, 8:47

same model for both hdd i suppose, so may the hdd can't read sa and init itself.
did u try hot-swap to read fw modules?

Re: Samsung HM250HI

September 26th, 2011, 9:00

positivebit wrote:same model for both hdd i suppose, so may the hdd can't read sa and init itself.
did u try hot-swap to read fw modules?


Yes, same model both of them.

Hot-swap did not work out.

Re: Samsung HM250HI

September 26th, 2011, 12:57

Doesn't work, in fact :mrgreen:

Re: Samsung HM250HI

September 26th, 2011, 15:54

What doesn't work? :roll:

Re: Samsung HM250HI

September 27th, 2011, 2:07

BlackST wrote:Doesn't work, in fact :mrgreen:


Could you be more precise, please?

Re: Samsung HM250HI

September 27th, 2011, 2:22

barak wrote:
BlackST wrote:Doesn't work, in fact :mrgreen:


Could you be more precise, please?


means hotswap

Re: Samsung HM250HI

September 27th, 2011, 3:34

einstein9 wrote:
barak wrote:
BlackST wrote:Doesn't work, in fact :mrgreen:


Could you be more precise, please?


means hotswap


Obviously. Is the meaning of the comment that hotswap does not work with these drives at all?

Re: Samsung HM250HI

September 27th, 2011, 9:54

It does, if you do it right ;-)

Re: Samsung HM250HI

September 27th, 2011, 10:32

pcimage wrote:It does, if you do it right ;-)


THAT'S the problem. Otherwise, there's plan B (but this require something extra....)
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