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September 16th, 2026, 8:54
Hi All
Drive was not spinning initially and no power as well, so swapped rom to donor pcb but still drive doesn't spin but BSY LED is on in PC3K
Have attached the ROM, kindly help
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September 16th, 2026, 11:23
try this
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September 16th, 2026, 17:50
pepe wrote:try this
Did you use a donor ROM, or did you carve the missing piece out of the second BOOTFW container?
September 16th, 2026, 18:23
2nd container has a different version, so likely not working with current FW in sa. So yes, i picked the code piece from a donor. Interestingly there was another byte that required correction, perhaps a reading error?
September 16th, 2026, 18:42
Yes, I saw they were different versions, but I found some code that looked identical in the second container, at least at the beginning. After checking again, it turned out to be a false impression.
September 17th, 2026, 2:22
pepe wrote:try this
Hi pepe after writing the rom
Drive spins clicks twice and spins down
Boot 0x40M
SpinUp
FAIL Servo Op=0100 Resp=0003
0100 0000 0000 0001 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
ResponseFrame 0E80 0000 04B0 3B80 0008 0000 0000 0000 0EDF 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 530B 45BB 418B 5CA2 4496 97CC F84C 230D FFFF 0000 0004 D593 FFA5 007F 001D 0004 0000 Loop=007F
FAIL Servo Op=0100 Resp=0003
0100 0000 0000 0001 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
ResponseFrame 0080 0000 04B0 3B80 0008 0000 0000 0000 0EDF 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 530B 45BB 418B 5CA2 4496 97CC F84C 230D FFFF 0000 0004 CD0C FFAC 007F
September 17th, 2026, 3:38
what's the SN on the label?
September 17th, 2026, 4:18
pepe wrote:what's the SN on the label?
S/N: ZN1RRDQ1
PN: 2EP102-301
FW: CC46
ST1000DM010
September 17th, 2026, 5:30
SN matches, so rom is likely native, then my suspect is either preamp or heads. Better not power it up anymore before confirming, or replacing MHA.
September 30th, 2026, 2:20
pepe wrote:SN matches, so rom is likely native, then my suspect is either preamp or heads. Better not power it up anymore before confirming, or replacing MHA.
Hi pepe thank you so much problem after swapping heads i could able to clone complete drive
September 30th, 2026, 3:01
nice. I guess an overvoltage killed both the pcb and the preamp, however the damage to the rom is a bit strange. The erasure at 3000 is fine, but the change of byta @6211 from 33 to 36 is not easily explainable unless being a reading error.
pepe
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