WD20SMZW Heads Cross Compatibility

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tweety
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WD20SMZW Heads Cross Compatibility

December 29th, 2020, 7:20

Hello

Someone tested Heads swap to WD20SMZW from WD20SDRW???
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Re: WD20SMZW Heads Cross Compatibility

January 2nd, 2021, 15:45

Post the ROM code from module A0 for both drives. Starts with an |R|, e.g, |R|NZPA5NS
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Re: WD20SMZW Heads Cross Compatibility

January 2nd, 2021, 15:51

If you can't isolate module A0, the code segment of interest is located near the very end of the ROM dump.
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Re: WD20SMZW Heads Cross Compatibility

January 2nd, 2021, 18:15

i guess you menant 0A...

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Re: WD20SMZW Heads Cross Compatibility

January 2nd, 2021, 19:48

pepe wrote:i guess you menant 0A...

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Thanks. I did.

Dyslexia? :-)
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Re: WD20SMZW Heads Cross Compatibility

January 3rd, 2021, 5:02

My tool prints all that information for you.

http://www.users.on.net/~fzabkar/FreeBasic_W32/WD/wdROMv15.exe
http://www.users.on.net/~fzabkar/FreeBasic_W32/WD/wdROMv15.bas
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