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MQ04UBD200 head swap from MQ01ABD050 donor - Only HEAD 0

November 23rd, 2021, 11:05

Hi everyone,
i have a MQ04UBD200 AZA AB01/JT000U drive (4 heads, 2 platters).
I've already cloned on head 1,2,3. Head 0 was very weak and it died before finishing to clone (remaining about 263.000.000 LBAs not cloned yet).

At the moment i don't have a 2TB MQ donor drive for head swap but i've a pair of MQ01ABD050 AAS AAF2/AX0A3H (2 heads, 1 platter) here.
Does somebody know if this would be a valid head swap donor for cloning just on head 0 ?

Re: MQ04UBD200 head swap from MQ01ABD050 donor - Only HEAD 0

November 23rd, 2021, 11:38

I don't think anybody tried but it's unlikely that it would work.
MQ01 is 500GB per platter, MQ04 is 1TB per platter
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