HTS541616J9AT00 PC3K Not Reading ID + Scraping/Media Damage

[sceggy]

Just about to give up on this one. Connected to PC3k UDMA (techno mode as per docs). Not able to read ID.

Some nice scraping noises (not clicking) indicative of a dragging/loose/damage heads and subsequent media damage; even though this is a fairly new drive (<5 months old) I suspect physical shock/drop. Not spinning as it should also.

Anybody else gotten successful results from these drives on PC3k?

scegs

[coffeebean]

Have seen a lot of drives with this exact diagnostic.
so far in almost all cases media just perfect and heads replacement
gives good results.

With this drive type you MUST prevent heads contact when removing donor heads
and keep heads apart at all times

[beto]

Hello

Get DRDY DSC? after this sound

Best Regards

[pcimage]

Agree with coffeeebean, especially with keeping the heads apart, as with all hitachi drives.

[b_wonderer_a]

Hello, i have encountered a similar problem with HTS541. I does not read the ID and when checking the modules the PSHT module is not read, al 3 copies of it. Any advice ? (no success in writing the module)

Thanks in advance.

[dmarques]

Hi,

I've had up a few Hitachi HTS541 and HTS726 with problems on the P-List and that I couldn't solve it anyway.

[jono-ats]

In the last week or two I have seen 5 of these drives; some with a lot of read errors; others come ready and spin up but I can't read ANYTHING with the UDMA PC3000.

I haven't tried head swaps with this model yet.

I think I'm stuck if I don't replace heads.

Jon