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Data recovery and disk repair questions and discussions related to old-fashioned SATA, SAS, SCSI, IDE, MFM hard drives - any type of storage device that has moving parts
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doubt bios, firmware and smart

August 26th, 2024, 19:30

what chips in PCB HDD 2.5" or 3.5" store BIOS and firmware and SMART? are 3 chips for 3 files? what type of chip use for tree?

Re: doubt bios, firmware and smart

August 27th, 2024, 0:08

SMART data is typically located on the platters in the FW (SA).

Re: doubt bios, firmware and smart

August 27th, 2024, 5:21

1) FW (SA)????

2) what chips in PCB HDD 2.5" or 3.5" store BIOS and firmware

Re: doubt bios, firmware and smart

August 27th, 2024, 11:00

You could consider change username to doubt-a-lot.

Re: doubt bios, firmware and smart

August 27th, 2024, 20:14

sonicmario wrote:1) FW (SA)????

2) what chips in PCB HDD 2.5" or 3.5" store BIOS and firmware


For the record, I am convinced you're a bot.

FW = Firmware.
SA = Service Area (the location on the platters that stores firmware)

There is usually no "chip" that holds firmware; there are boot loaders.
The only exception to this rule is Hitachi (well, the old "Hitachi"); but that's a loaded gun question and is model / era dependant.

Re: doubt bios, firmware and smart

August 27th, 2024, 20:16

hdd 2.5 and 3.5" not use any memory chip eeeprom or flash for store firmware/bios?
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