maxtor slim drive - good but bad drive

I need some help with this drive. I have a maxtor diamondmax plus 8 40GB. The drive shows in bios that it failed i have to f1 to continue. I used a cloning tool, and it won't read the sectors but is does see the drive. i tried a board swap, i have the same results. Would this be firmware or SA? I have mhdd setup and running could i use this to my advantage or to help me find answers?

Thank you!

There are possible 2 problems with your drive. First problem - destroyed translator. You can recover it by PC-3000. Second problem - fully dead G-List. It is possible to recover by PC-3000 too.

Thank you for your assitance! I spent the afternoon on the phone with pc3000, they have another customer.

is there somewhere i can be pointed to read up on this type of stuff and servo, firmware and crc stuff?

Me,

If you became a Acelab customer, their manual and forums have plenty of information :good:

If you have not, you can try disassembling the hdd microprogram, (i can't do it) but i think that for doing it
requires A LOT of experience in hacking, reverse engineering, machine code e others "very simple" skills

You can also try asking in this forum, but people seems to be very quiet around here ...

Regards

(Feel free to PM me any time you need)

-=pc3krules=-

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