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Rom burned on caviar32

January 22nd, 2012, 10:31

Can't find a valid rom for this drive that arrived with no ROM in lab, it a WD model WD2000-00GUCO
by hot swap i checked all modules are fine but i can't find a donor same version for data access.
3 platters 5 heads - find out that it is Head Map 0.1.3.4.5
and found out on fw that rom fw is 08.02D08 (easy to find as donor) & rom version 21.02J21 (this one is almost impossible to find)
there is a workaround?

Re: Rom burned on caviar32

January 22nd, 2012, 14:28

edit: complete model name is WD2000BB-00GUCO
edit2: by smart hot swap i can read sectors only by crc mode and extremly slowly

Re: Rom burned on caviar32

January 23rd, 2012, 19:32

FWIW, I downloaded WD2000BB-00DWA0.rar from here:
http://www.datadonor.net/index.php?fold ... ZlciBJSQ==

After examining the files in the archive, I noticed that ROM.bin was an exact copy of the data in track ERR_12.TKS.

Re: Rom burned on caviar32

January 24th, 2012, 2:23

This was a good tip,
unfortunatly that family is different from my drive, in my tracks there is not rom image, in track 12 for istance there are only 0.
Bad luck!

here are the tracks.
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Tracks from H 0.zip
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