WD Translator regeneration

[acforensics]

Hi Group. I'm doing a smart hotswap. I have the patient P-List copied to the donor, but when I run translator regeneration in SD or PC3k, I get an error. Anyone had this before? None of the modules give errors on structure test. Could it be that one or more of the modules is not writeable(bad sectors)? Which modules are written on regeneration? I checked all the translators for errors and got none. BTW, I also tried copying all the translator modules directly from the patient to the donor and that didn't work either - still get IDNF on a ton of sectors.

Any help?

Thanks!

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[jono-ats]

I'll bet this is a Marvel drive.

[acforensics]

Yes. I just did this procedure with another one and it worked fine. Of course I was able to regenerate that one. Any idea what's going on?

[jono-ats]

Sorry to respond with a question, but are you using the bad drive's PCB on the donor when you do a smart hot swap?

[harddrivespecialist]

You need a whole SA written to a hot-swap drive.

On another hand, heads could be writing your info to a wrong spot. Do they pass read/write test?

[acforensics]

Jon,

Yep, using the patient PCB on the donor HDA, get it to ID, power down the motor, then switch to the patient. Why?

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[acforensics]

hddspecialist,

Much of the data is being written ok. Just big blocks of IDNF. I do think one head may be weak or bad since I get a lot of slow reads in chunks. But I'm mainly trying to get rid of the IDNF reads.

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