Toshiba MK4019GAX

Hello to all hddguru.

A question its possible to read Microcode from a Toshiba PCB directly without HDA ? And write on a donnor PCB ? using terminal commands for example.

Because toshiba dont allow PCB swap´s

Thanks

Sinceraly

Alberto

Don't think so.

You have to transfer the microprocessor (the "ARM" chip) to the donor PCB. :-(

As pcimage suggested, you need to swap the ARM processor chip as it contains adaptives for this drive. It's a very very difficult chip swap (80pins) and you really need an infrared soldering tool. Probably a 50/50 chance of it working.

Not much point in doing as Spildit suggests as you will still need to de-solder and re-solder the chip anyway.

Hello spildit wich class of universal eeprom programmer do u suggest me for do this work?

Thanks