Seagate ST2000DM001 ROM collection

[deftrue]

Hello,

Today arrived one of these Seagate drives with the PCB all burnt. I've managed to get a ROM image which seems to have good data (not just rubbish), but the HDD with this ROM in several matching PCB's won't make the drive spin (not even give a BSY state), so I'm afraid the ROM is corrupt.

I know these cases are almost a no-go, but I'd like to give a try to a bunch of ROMs. Maybe one of them rings the bell.

The details are:

ST2000DM001
CC4B
9YN164-500
S/N W24 0M586

Any help collecting some ROMs would be very much appreciated.

Regards

[Matiw]

Have you considered the possibility that something else is causing the drive not to spin ? Say, for example pre-amp failure. Does the drive spins with matching donor, without ROM swap ?

[fzabkar]

Wouldn't a bad checksum be reported via terminal?

Could we see the damage?

[deftrue]

Two PCBs from two almost matching donors (same model, same PCB number, different firmware) make the drive spin, click, and report servo fail errors through the terminal. +1 for the fact that the ROM was uploaded through the 1v8 terminal without complain... but I've never seen a drive behave like this with burnt preamp - the status register lights are sometimes all off upon spin, sometimes DRQ + DRD... but no BSY. Is this normal in thee drives?

[Matiw]

The adaptives in ROM contain parameters such as MR and PLO which help align the Heads on the tracks; if ROM is damaged, the HDD will not be able to align the Heads on the Servo and Data tracks, thus the error message.