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Hitachi - Serial No Identification Help Required

March 9th, 2016, 12:11

Hello Peers ,
Got a Case Of a ARM Series Hitachi .Model No is HDS721050CLA662 .Its a 500GB .Drive Does Not ID .In PC3k I Selected Custom And PCB Only Access .Utility Starts But i Cannot See Anything If i Select Visual NVRAM Editing .I Am Able To Read Both NVRAM And ROM .Can You Help Me Identify "Serial No " In ROM/NVRAM And Also Tell Me What Method They Store This .I Am Able To Find Many Segments With Signature "E2PR " .Serial No of My Drive is JP1572FN15TMWK And MLC Is : JPT41A
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Re: Hitachi - Serial No Identification Help Required

March 9th, 2016, 17:16

sorry but it's not the original NVRAM
this NVRAM was taken from JP1532FR2LXMKK (begins @ 0x16)

Re: Hitachi - Serial No Identification Help Required

March 10th, 2016, 1:37

jermy wrote:sorry but it's not the original NVRAM
this NVRAM was taken from JP1532FR2LXMKK (begins @ 0x16)


Hi Jermy ,
I Took a Picture For Another Drive " Hitachi HDS721010DLE630 " .The Serial No Here is " MSE5235V0MRJRL " .See This Screenshot

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The Last digits Are Reversed In NVRAM LR Though Serial No Is RL ,Then JR And RJ,Then M0 And 0M ,And So On .So Is This Method Called Byte swap ? Or What .What i did Is That i started PC3K With Hitachi HDS721010DLE63 Drive Connected And Opened The NVRAM Of This Then i Loaded The NVRAM Image of The Other Drive Whose Serial No i Was Not Able To Find And I Got The Result As You Gave Me Spot On ,Thanks For Helping Brother .The ROM is Not Original and Hence Is There a Point Handling This Case ? . Spildit Was Once Talking Along With Drdoc For Directly Accessing Sectors Via ABA/PBA Etc ,In This Drive Due To Wrong ROM The Drive Spins Down It would Be a Had Issue Also

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