Maxtor v107 & 120

[fujimax]

Many seem to struggle with this utility - here also.

You establish that there are many modules and you read that it's
the P-List, the G-List, the DMCS and corrupted headers with corrupted copies.

Often the loader won't work - even a loader written from a perfectly working drive does not work on itself.

Then you find some tricks - combine HDDL and pcmx - still problems.

Just finding a possible compatible *.ldr file can be fun - which loader file works with your drive - how do you tell ?

Now you also have a choice of Safe mode and Standard mode.

So all of this is mastered but still the success rate is low !

Ah, the fujis were so easy - constant module names, easy to pick the necessary file to read / write and quite easy success.

The Maxtors - one F/W read gives bad results, immediate following read gives better results.

Great - P-List & G-List does good ID, chksum - but no success.

Where to from here. - Table 2 - Part No ?? no module name to match with output files which are in UBA:Size format.

OK, match the UBA:Size format to PN - easy.

But wait you were working on an N40P and you found :

46600004.rpm is the HDD components information - good info here.

OK, so now you working with Romulus and you want that same good info to see - but where is this file - gone - NO !

For the Romulus this file is : 32390004.rpm

32390004.rpm Romulus HDD components
3CFE0004.rpm Calipso
46600004.rpm Ares C64, N40P
3B990004.rpm Athena DSP

What is the good info in these files ? :

You want a loader for your problem Maxtor - but which one, will it work ?

Important info on your drive is : pcba_pn - like B9FDB
without this matching number loader probably won't work.

So when you get your loader and modules files from someone, check the relevant files - can save a lot of time with wrong loader.

After all of this - still the Maxtor won't come alive for the valuable data.

Now to choose which module is really faulty and the corresponding file name - writing them all from another drive probably won't work.

Lastly, you are english and your version 120 can't do what russian 107 can do (huh ?) - true. So you must start learning cyrillic - thinking in english and transreading in russian can cause errors - but you will get there.

Anyone have the russian 120, 121 - maybe I can do with this.


btw. : try loading loader - fails - warm reboot - try again
(use russian version - english version loads nothing, even the best loader)
and try loader again - works sometimes.


If you don't know what I talkin about - you ain't done nothing yet !

[guru]

Many seem to struggle with this utility - here also.

You establish that there are many modules and you read that it's
the P-List, the G-List, the DMCS and corrupted headers with corrupted copies.

Often the loader won't work - even a loader written from a perfectly working drive does not work on itself.

Then you find some tricks - combine HDDL and pcmx - still problems.

Just finding a possible compatible *.ldr file can be fun - which loader file works with your drive - how do you tell ?

Now you also have a choice of Safe mode and Standard mode.

So all of this is mastered but still the success rate is low !

Ah, the fujis were so easy - constant module names, easy to pick the necessary file to read / write and quite easy success.

The Maxtors - one F/W read gives bad results, immediate following read gives better results.

Great - P-List & G-List does good ID, chksum - but no success.

Where to from here. - Table 2 - Part No ?? no module name to match with output files which are in UBA:Size format.

OK, match the UBA:Size format to PN - easy.

But wait you were working on an N40P and you found :

46600004.rpm is the HDD components information - good info here.

OK, so now you working with Romulus and you want that same good info to see - but where is this file - gone - NO !

For the Romulus this file is : 32390004.rpm

32390004.rpm Romulus HDD components
3CFE0004.rpm Calipso
46600004.rpm Ares C64, N40P
3B990004.rpm Athena DSP

What is the good info in these files ? :

You want a loader for your problem Maxtor - but which one, will it work ?

Important info on your drive is : pcba_pn - like B9FDB
without this matching number loader probably won't work.

So when you get your loader and modules files from someone, check the relevant files - can save a lot of time with wrong loader.

After all of this - still the Maxtor won't come alive for the valuable data.

Now to choose which module is really faulty and the corresponding file name - writing them all from another drive probably won't work.

Lastly, you are english and your version 120 can't do what russian 107 can do (huh ?) - true. So you must start learning cyrillic - thinking in english and transreading in russian can cause errors - but you will get there.

Anyone have the russian 120, 121 - maybe I can do with this.


btw. : try loading loader - fails - warm reboot - try again
(use russian version - english version loads nothing, even the best loader)
and try loader again - works sometimes.


If you don't know what I talkin about - you ain't done nothing yet !

Wow you had these problems

[fujimax]

Wow you had these problems

Guru, except for the good things in life much is not easy.

If everything was easy there would no need for experts.

Some make utilities for experts others for "housewives".

btw. "housewives" was one word I got when translating RU-EN for "newbie". So any ladies - no offence intended