Hello and thanks in advance for your help ,

am stuck with a samsung HD502HJ with corrupted ROM and will appreciate if u can send me some ROMs so i can try them

Fix the FIPS, assuming that is the problem. No need for replacement ROMs.

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many thanks for pointing this issue out , after reading o nthe issue , i guess my drive acts just like that ..

unfortunatly , i can't read the manuals on how to get the FIPS , as the website that holds those manuals is down ..

attached is a copy of the rom , hopefully , You can guide me throught fixing the FIPS

It's not a FIPS problem, assuming you've read the ROM correctly. It's definitely corrupt, though.

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The following topic explains how to extract the ROM and MOVLY001 SA module from a SpinPoint F3 firmware update:

viewtopic.php?t=28341

You need to patch a FIPS section from a working ROM, or create your own.

AISI, if the ROM is not a match, you may be able to circumvent this by writing the included MOVLY001 module to the SA.

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The following thread has a ROM image, plus a compatible MOVLY001 module.

Analysis of Samsung SpinPoint F3 ROM:
viewtopic.php?f=13&t=28342

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Hello again

thank you so much for this precious info

a friend has sent me the rom contents of a similar drive

donor drive
Model: HD502HJ
SN: S20BJ9JB803190

patient drive
Model: HD502HJ
SN: S20BJAOZC02477

unfortunatly i failed to create a suitable ROM to write back instead of the broken one ..

attached is the rom file i have for the donor , thanks to take a look at it , and advising

Take the 256KB ROM image from the SB850 update and add the second half of the 512KB donor ROM. That should give you a working 512KB ROM. If you then gain access to the SA, you could write the MOVLY001 module from the SB850 update. In this way you would be manually applying the full firmware update to the drive.

I'm assuming yours is a retail drive, not an OEM, otherwise you might consider searching for OEM firmware, eg Dell, HP.

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Hello again

tried everything , almost .. no luck ..

i have choosed 1AJE4MYM.115 as my drive is HD502HJ

fixed it's data from the donor rom , drive is not spinning up ,
fixed the donor with the image , still , spins ok , but stuck on bsy ..

am attaching the donor rom , along with the FW image and the result ,

thank you for taking a look

i found several donor roms , 1 of them allowed the hdd to go rdy

first 15000 LBAs are too buggy and thought of some adaptive data (inspite of i know samsung roms are not famous for such thing) , but drive went stable afterwards


thanks alot Frank , you have been the only one that attributed a time for my case , thank you ..

any way , once the data recovered , i will keep playing with compiling the rom my self ..

You built and patched the ROM incorrectly.

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