Data recovery and disk repair questions and discussions related to old-fashioned SATA, SAS, SCSI, IDE, MFM hard drives - any type of storage device that has moving parts
June 15th, 2012, 15:38
I just purchased a hard drive that was made approximately a month after the one I aim to repair that is fully functioning. They are the same everything besides that one detail. Even the layout of the PCB's themselves.
Now, I know I need to transfer the Firmware chip from the old HDD to the new HDD's PCB. However, I have no idea which one that is. Any help would be appreciated.
Here are pictures of the HDD PCB in case you can identify it simply by looking:
June 16th, 2012, 8:08
Picture is not to clear, but it seems like one on a bottom right of Processor chip (LSI) and it has 8 legs
June 16th, 2012, 9:33
Thank you very much. May I ask how you figured it was that one?
June 17th, 2012, 16:14
Try googling the chip numbers and reading the data sheets.
It is typical to have serial-roms on controller boards. And this certainly a serial-rom.
June 17th, 2012, 21:26
Vitalius wrote:Thank you very much. May I ask how you figured it was that one?
Experience, probably.
June 18th, 2012, 14:33
It seems to me it's CLA series HDD... it doesn't have NVRAM by the way...
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