Has anyone successfully unlocked a 2060-800086-000?

[henryevans]

Has anyone successfully unlocked a 2060-800086-000?

[material32]

If you do not give more details, nobody will likely reply to your post.

Give more details about the problem you have and more details about the HDD. How the drive got damaged and so on.

Also take some photos to the PCB and show them here.

If you do the above, it is much more probable for your question to be answered.

[data-medics]

Actually, his question seemed pretty straightforward. He's referring to how WD is now locking down PCBs from firmware access and you need either a method to unlock the PCB or a board that is already unlocked.

I for one have not seen any 800086 unlocked boards available anywhere as of yet. I'm sure people are working on it, but WD keeps adding layers of complexity to the puzzle.

[material32]

The replacement for this PCB is sold by HDD zone at a price of 56 USD.

Take a look here:

https://www.hddzone.com/wd-pcb-20608000 ... -4061.html

[northwind]

This isn't an unlocked board.

[material32]

The unlocked PCB is very expensive.

But I think that if you buy a working locked PCB , you can replace the BIOS chip from the donor PCB with the one from the failing PCB. And this should work without needing to unlock the PCB. Although I am not totally sure.

The OP should explain his/her problem with more detail.

[Lardman]

But I think that if you buy a working locked PCB , you can replace the BIOS chip from the donor PCB with the one from the failing PCB. And this should work without needing to unlock the PCB.

I think you're misunderstanding the purpose of an unlocked PCB. This isn't a case of moving a ROM which is why, when available unlocked boards carry a hefty price tag. Recently MRT has introduced the ability to unlock some boards but not others, the OP's question is sound, it was unanswered as the responses would either be "no" or "yes but we're not sharing how" as it would be commercially sensitive.

[fzabkar]

Does anyone have a 2060-800086 ROM dump I could look at?

[michael chiklis]

Probably here:
https://firmware.hddsurgery.com/dl.php? ... 8AUDPD.zip


WD10SMZM-59WKCS0 drives corrisponds to Palmer family with 800086 pcb
https://www.donordrives.com/catalogsear ... 060-800086

[fzabkar]

The ROM structure looks similar to the other ROMs that have been successfully unlocked by MRT. I can see what MRT is doing, but I don't know why. In fact I can tell you which bytes to change, but I don't know what values to replace them with in every case. It just seems strange that MRT doesn't have a solution.