WD Drives running VERY slowly

[pcimage]

Hi All!

Help please?

I have two WD drives here (one WD400 & one WD1600).

Both had PCB problems, which I have fixed.

Both have regenerated translator OK.

All SA modules check out OK according to PC3000.

But when I go to image them, both get to a certain point then run INCREDIBLY slowly. The 160Gb has taken 3 days to image 3Gb.

Run Hdd regen on the 40Gb and it gets to 10million or so then encounters bad sectors which it fixes. Have tried starting regen at various places after 10million, same. It's gonna take weeks to regen th 73million or so sectors!


Any suggestions?

Thanks in advance.

Sean

[rameez]

did u chk the condition of the hdd by MHDD or victoria . do write erasing .

[pcimage]

Thanks for reply, but I don't want to erase, need data.

[sempre]

Hi, pcimage!

Which tool you are using to make the image?

[pcimage]

Hi!

I try with dd_rescue, ddrescue, Winhex and Media Tools.

All same, very slow

[quasimodo]

1) make sure your IDE cable is OK.
2) check that you're IDE Pins are not broken, losse, or badly bent.
3) try reverse sector copy with dd_rescue or media tools
4) try to skip some thousand sectors

Did you use fully compatible PCB, becasue this can also be PCB problem?

4) Swapp PCB again.

[pcimage]

Hi!

Thanks for reply

1) Have tried several cables
2) Checked, all OK
3) Tried reverse also
4) Have tried strarting from various places, same

Pretty sure PCB is OK, had to swap ROM from original PCB to get working.

Has now copied 16Gb.

It sometimes goes quickly for a bit, then REAL slow. Very odd

Any other suggestions?

[pcimage]

Update:

Is going like a rocket now, copied over 30Gb from this morning till 6pm. Now over 100Gb imaged.

Sure I tried imaging from various places before.

Maybe the drive was out of alignment, and it's now sorted itself out?