Clicking Maxtor 6Y250P0 - Can anyone help?

[thatdellguy]

I have the following Maxtor 6Y250P0 YAR41BW0 which just clicks constantly after a few seconds. What I have done so far with SalvationData Maxtor tools:

1. Safemode booted to SA-C and made loader from SA-A. Loader boots drive from safemode with no problems. Have perfect read/write access to SA-A and SA-B.
2. Checked firmware. No bad sectors or firmware problems.
3. Removed heads 0,1,2,4,and 5 one at a time but still get clicking.
4. Inside looks visually good. Nothing is binding the headstack.

This one is driving me NUTS. I'm thinking its a pcb problem or maybe headstack but not sure. If anyone has any suggestions it would be greatly apreciated. Thanks

[beto]

Tried an hot swap , and check if hdd reach DRDY DSC, if its still knocking the most probably its a MHA damaged,
if no tried to check SA ,structure and of course did a backup of SA ,
Best regards

[rameez]

If the drive boots with a loader it couldnt be a pcb issue sometimes this happen when rom is corrupt check if drive has external rom . If not like beto said MHA issue .

[thatdellguy]

I was thinking rom as well. Thanks for the help. Does anyone have a rom? The pcb does have an external rom.

6y250p0
yar41bw0
k,g,g,d
sn: y60******

[thatdellguy]

If someone could send one to my email it would be greatly apreciated. Thanks.

thatdellguy @ gmail.com

[dobrevjetser]

Hi,

Do you accept PC3K UDMA format ?

Dobre

[Doomer]

try to disable all heads except for head 3 - it should come ready
probably drive has more than one dead head this is why this - "3. Removed heads 0,1,2,4,and 5 one at a time but still get clicking" doesn't help
try to find out dead heads and disable them
do whatever you want after

[Doomer]

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[thatdellguy]

I did try only head three but still get the clicking noise. Even tried the special head specific loader for Calyspo drives with no clicking. The weird thing is that I can read the firmware perfectly from head three with a ldr and it doesnt click. Disabling other heads was the first thing I tried. From 50% to 100% of the rom is empty making me think the rom is at fault or incorrectly programmed. The only problem is that I have nothing to compare it to at the moment. Other similiar roms with YAR41BW0 make use of the last half of the rom.

[harddrivespecialist]

I have PC-3000 version. If you want it I can send it to you.
PM you e-mail to me.

[Doomer]

first of all if ROM is bad - drive will not spin up
Didn't you think what code will spin up the drive if ROM is bad?
And ROM has CS - drive will not spin up if ROM has bad CS

[thatdellguy]

"first of all if ROM is bad - drive will not spin up"
I knew that.

"Didn't you think what code will spin up the drive if ROM is bad?"
I don't understand this sentence.

"And ROM has CS - drive will not spin up if ROM has bad CS"
I knew that. I wanted to compare it to a good rom.

[thatdellguy]

Does anyone have a rom backup for this drive? Thanks.