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
April 12th, 2013, 21:49
Drive spins up, heads loading normally and drive stays BSY. This drive has the stupid Apple AP25 firmware and as usual does not respond to CRTL+Z. I've had a few drives with Apple firmware that would not respond to terminal commands. Anyone here have a solution for these drives to at least have them respond to terminal commands?
April 13th, 2013, 11:46
It spits out Rst: 0x10M and then (P) SATA RESET. After that no further communication is possible. Already tried shorting R/W channel but then the drive does not respond to anything. Even just the bare PCB will not accept any terminal commands.
Apple does use the TX/RX pins for temperature sensing in iMacs, so this apple firmware is messing with the TX/RX pins needed for the terminal communication.
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