Am I wasting my time with this Samsung piece of ****?

[pcimage]

Hi all,

Got a Samsung SP0411N here, which spins up then spins down again immediately.

So, I guess some problem with the Dyanamic Translator, so perform Soft Reset... Drive spins up and becomes Ready.. With Model, S/N etc OK.

But.. Get this...

Family selected: PANGO
Model................................... : SP0411N

Technological ID
Flash version........................... : tw13a3
Heads number............................ : 1
SA SPT.................................. : 928

Modules table used by default

Service Area
Head map................................ : Drive is not ready
Part Number............................. : Drive is not ready
Password info is not loaded: Drive is not ready

But check SA structure and......

Drive is not ready
Soft reset ...
Ok


SA structure test

Reading modules...
00 FSI.................................. : OK
02 FIT.................................. : OK
04 MLIST................................ : OK
05 SRVTBL............................... : OK
64 SKTIME3.............................. : OK
61 MODELID.............................. : OK
06 CONFIG............................... : OK
07 SNTBL................................ : OK
08 BISPT................................ : OK
09 BRSLT................................ : OK
0A CRITERIA............................. : OK
0B FINALTST............................. : OK
0C ARCOTBL.............................. : OK
0D GEO_TBL.............................. : Read sector error (c: 1,h:0,s: 49) (ABR)
0E VLISTHDR............................. : Read sector error (c: 1,h:0,s: 78) (ABR)
0F VLIST................................ : Read sector error (c: 1,h:0,s: 79) (ABR)
10 SLISTHDR............................. : Read sector error (c: 1,h:0,s: 111) (ABR)
11 SLIST................................ : Read sector error (c: 1,h:0,s: 112) (ABR)
12 TLIST................................ : Read sector error (c: 1,h:0,s: 368) (ABR)
13 ALIST................................ : Read sector error (c: 1,h:0,s: 372) (ABR)
15 SETMAX............................... : Read sector error (c: 1,h:0,s: 381) (ABR)
16 SECURITY............................. : Read sector error (c: 1,h:0,s: 382) (ABR)
17 SRVTBL2.............................. : Read sector error (c: 1,h:0,s: 383) (ABR)
18 ARCOTBL2............................. : Read sector error (c: 1,h:0,s: 387) (ABR)
14 TMPRTR............................... : Read sector error (c: 1,h:0,s: 395) (ABR)
19 OVERLAY.............................. : Read sector error (c: 1,h:0,s: 401) (ABR)
5A VL40CODE............................. : Read sector error (c: 2,h:0,s: 1) (ABR)
5B VL40CHN.............................. : Read sector error (c: 2,h:0,s: 602) (ABR)
29 DLIST................................ : Read sector error (c: 3,h:0,s: 1) (ABR)
41 SPESB0............................... : Read sector error (c: 3,h:0,s: 701) (ABR)
42 SPESB1............................... : Read sector error (c: 3,h:0,s: 703) (ABR)
43 SPESB2............................... : Read sector error (c: 3,h:0,s: 705) (ABR)
44 SPESB3............................... : Read sector error (c: 3,h:0,s: 707) (ABR)
45 SPESB4............................... : Read sector error (c: 3,h:0,s: 709) (ABR)
1A HDAF_RPT............................. : Read sector error (c: 4,h:0,s: 1) (ABR)
1B HD_DLIST............................. : Read sector error (c: 4,h:0,s: 2) (ABR)
1C LATCHFRC............................. : Read sector error (c: 4,h:0,s: 4) (ABR)
1D RCOSCRPT............................. : Read sector error (c: 4,h:0,s: 5) (ABR)
1F ERRTRK............................... : Read sector error (c: 4,h:0,s: 56) (ABR)
20 ERRZN................................ : Read sector error (c: 4,h:0,s: 57) (ABR)
21 ERRDRV............................... : Read sector error (c: 4,h:0,s: 58) (ABR)
22 SRTDATA.............................. : Read sector error (c: 4,h:0,s: 59) (ABR)
23 SRTSRVO.............................. : Read sector error (c: 4,h:0,s: 60) (ABR)
24 SCN_GRAY............................. : Read sector error (c: 4,h:0,s: 61) (ABR)
25 PARAM................................ : Read sector error (c: 4,h:0,s: 62) (ABR)
26 WKHEAD............................... : Read sector error (c: 4,h:0,s: 72) (ABR)
27 TSTPI................................ : Read sector error (c: 4,h:0,s: 82) (ABR)
28 MRTUNEMT............................. : Read sector error (c: 4,h:0,s: 86) (ABR)
1E BTIME................................ : Read sector error (c: 4,h:0,s: 91) (ABR)
53 MRRTABLE............................. : Read sector error (c: 4,h:0,s: 93) (ABR)
54 NPV_RSLT............................. : Read sector error (c: 4,h:0,s: 94) (ABR)
56 ARCOTBL3............................. : Read sector error (c: 4,h:0,s: 131) (ABR)
62 BPITEST.............................. : Read sector error (c: 4,h:0,s: 141) (ABR)
63 ARCOTBL4............................. : Read sector error (c: 4,h:0,s: 142) (ABR)
2A GEO_00............................... : Read sector error (c: 4,h:0,s: 347) (ABR)
2B TST_ZH............................... : Read sector error (c: 4,h:0,s: 431) (ABR)
2C GEO_ZH............................... : Read sector error (c: 4,h:0,s: 495) (ABR)
47 CAPSEL............................... : Read sector error (c: 4,h:0,s: 511) (ABR)
48 CURBPI............................... : Read sector error (c: 4,h:0,s: 512) (ABR)
49 AZLCSM............................... : Read sector error (c: 4,h:0,s: 513) (ABR)
4A AZL_CSM0............................. : Read sector error (c: 4,h:0,s: 514) (ABR)
4B AZL_CSM1............................. : Read sector error (c: 4,h:0,s: 515) (ABR)
4C AZL_CSM2............................. : Read sector error (c: 4,h:0,s: 516) (ABR)
4D AZL_CSM3............................. : Read sector error (c: 4,h:0,s: 517) (ABR)
4E AZL_CSM4............................. : Read sector error (c: 4,h:0,s: 518) (ABR)
4F AZL_CSM5............................. : Read sector error (c: 4,h:0,s: 519) (ABR)
50 AZL_CSM6............................. : Read sector error (c: 4,h:0,s: 520) (ABR)
2D AZLBPI............................... : Read sector error (c: 4,h:0,s: 521) (ABR)
2E AZL_BPI0............................. : Read sector error (c: 4,h:0,s: 522) (ABR)
2F AZL_BPI1............................. : Read sector error (c: 4,h:0,s: 523) (ABR)
30 AZL_BPI2............................. : Read sector error (c: 4,h:0,s: 524) (ABR)
31 AZL_BPI3............................. : Read sector error (c: 4,h:0,s: 525) (ABR)
32 AZL_BPI4............................. : Read sector error (c: 4,h:0,s: 526) (ABR)
33 AZL_BPI5............................. : Read sector error (c: 4,h:0,s: 527) (ABR)
34 AZL_BPI6............................. : Read sector error (c: 4,h:0,s: 528) (ABR)
52 INSTABHD............................. : Read sector error (c: 4,h:0,s: 533) (ABR)
57 ATE.................................. : Read sector error (c: 4,h:0,s: 537) (ABR)
58 WII.................................. : Read sector error (c: 4,h:0,s: 538) (ABR)
59 TPTP................................. : Read sector error (c: 4,h:0,s: 542) (ABR)
51 SPSTW................................ : Read sector error (c: 4,h:0,s: 543) (ABR)
36 RCO_LOG.............................. : Read sector error (c: 5,h:0,s: 1) (ABR)
5C TSTPI2............................... : Read sector error (c: 7,h:0,s: 1) (ABR)
5D BPITEST2............................. : Read sector error (c: 7,h:0,s: 5) (ABR)
5E ATE2................................. : Read sector error (c: 7,h:0,s: 6) (ABR)
5F TPTP2................................ : Read sector error (c: 7,h:0,s: 7) (ABR)
60 BRSLT2............................... : Read sector error (c: 7,h:0,s: (ABR)
66 BER2................................. : Read sector error (c: 7,h:0,s: 11) (ABR)
37 SMART................................ : Read sector error (c:11,h:0,s: 1) (ABR)
38 SMRT_LOG............................. : Read sector error (c:11,h:0,s: 3) (ABR)
39 SMRT_TST............................. : Read sector error (c:11,h:0,s: 10) (ABR)
3A SMRT_HLG............................. : Read sector error (c:11,h:0,s: 15) (ABR)
3B BIAS_SHK............................. : Read sector error (c:11,h:0,s: 527) (ABR)
3D ELOG................................. : Read sector error (c:12,h:0,s: 1) (ABR)
46 BIMODAL.............................. : Read sector error (c:15,h:0,s: 1) (ABR)
3F SV_TRACE............................. : Read sector error (c:20,h:0,s: 1) (ABR)
40 PES_LOG.............................. : Read sector error (c:20,h:0,s: 11) (ABR)
3E IPC_DBG.............................. : Read sector error (c:20,h:0,s: 302) (ABR)
5C PMP.................................. : Read sector error (c:20,h:0,s: 304) (ABR)

Password information.................... : Loaded
S-LIST.................................. : Module header error
T-LIST.................................. : Module header error
A-LIST.................................. : Module header error
D-LIST.................................. : Module header error
Test completed

Am I wasting my time on this?

Thanks in advance

[dobrevjetser]

This drive is equal situation to Maxtor 6E040; easy platter swap.
I think will be only solution if there is any.


Regards,

Dobre

[pcimage]

Dobre,

Excuse my ignorance, but how would a platter swap make the modules read OK?

Sean

[dobrevjetser]

It could be a head problem (lame head). But if you see scratches on the platter, forget it.
Then chances will be very low to recover the data.

Dobre

[beto]

Yes Samsung slimlines series some times had head crash u need to lift up the platter to analyze it

[pcimage]

Thanks Alberto, will lift platter to check.

[flabvox]

HI pcimage,

I know this is an old post, but I hope you can read it.

I have the same problem in many Samsung drives, even 3,5" not only 2,5".

Always spinning up an down, and if I reset them with mhdd I can only see model and serial but cannot access them.

I don't understand how platters' damage can be related with this spinning up and down.

Thanks for your help.

[pepe]

Hi

are U sure the PCB is native? ROM and SA incompatibility can cause such symptoms...

pepe

[flabvox]

Hi pepe,

thanks for your replay.

Yes I'm sure the HD I'm talkin about they work all with their native ROM.

Maybe there's corruption in ROM PCB, and then replacing it with compatible board the incompatibility still remains?