Western Digital WD5000LMVW

[kpeddie]

Hello

Have a WD5000LMVW USB 3 drive. Does anyone know which pins are TX and RX? Have PC3000 but not come across one of these before.

Thanks

[loki]

If you can take some hi quality pics of both sides of the pcb & upload them it will be helpful.

Loki

[einstein9]

Hello

Have a WD5000LMVW USB 3 drive. Does anyone know which pins are TX and RX? Have PC3000 but not come across one of these before.

Thanks

correction: WD5000KMVW right?

[kpeddie]

Will do but no it is indeed a WD5000LMVW.

Ive previously used the toshiba terminal connector to talk to WD USB drives but no luck with this drive. Its only got a single row of pins and they are surrounded by a plastic lip

[einstein9]

can u upload clear image of pcb here?
something new really

or the link of this product in WDC

thnx

[Smart302]

The COM adapter Samsung completely generic!
Figure: Samsung COM adapter to rely on the left side of the bottom pin is inserted! ! !

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[einstein9]

this is some how bad quality image, cannot read the pcb #
not even by googling

got only this WD5000LMVW-11CKRS0 with no CLEAR image really

[einstein9]

WD My Passport Edge - heheh
Damn new
thnx i got it

[Smart302]

The camera is not very clear

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[einstein9]

The camera is not very clear

it will not work this way, totally Diff.

and you may ask the TS about that

good luck

[kpeddie]

Hope this helps

[kpeddie]

Just came across my own post regarding a SATA board for this. Anyone know what SATA board might work with 2060-771859-000? Its a WD5000LMVW-11CKRS0

Thanks

[data-medics]

That's a new board if I've seen one. I'd love to know what family it is if you manage to get terminal access to it.

[data-medics]

I would try a Firebird board 2060-771823-000

Has the same IC, and I think the same MC.

[data-medics]

Only issue I see is that the 2060-771823-000 board uses a different U12 chip.... so soldering might be an issue if you can't get terminal access... perhaps they've caught on to our methods and are making this more difficult.

[fzabkar]

The 771852 SATA PCB appears to use the same 88i9346-TFJ2 MCU and Nautilus motor controller.

http://ep.yimg.com/ay/yhst-44463692235217/771852-3.gif
http://ep.yimg.com/ay/yhst-144375849714 ... -001-9.gif

[kpeddie]

ill have a look to see if I have those here and report back if it works! might have a go at tracking tx and rx pins as well

[hddr49]

pins are same as usb2 WD drives

I have terminal access with :

USB GND RxD TxD
___ I I I I I I

And PCB 771931 & 771959 seems to work for other users (not tested)

[data-medics]

Did you figure out which SATA board works yet? I just want to update my sticky on this subject: http://data-medics.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=13

[saltwater]

The 771852 board works well with these drives....