Hi all

can someone please help me id this drive family

WD5000AACS OOZUBO
WD Caviar GP

thank you

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That is the drive family. Not sure who supports this

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Iorana Haraharaini

I'm not sure about family classification, but probably it's ROYAL Zeus

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1) Zeus it is not a ROYAL family

2) 0ZUB0 it is Royal ( if PCB is 701474 - thats Hulk family)

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Angel Data Recovery

It is Spider family.

@DR-Kiev & hddguy

Thanks for amusing explanation

Very informative. This new WD family classification & code name is new for me.

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The family can be determined in Marvel drives by the 3rd and 4th character in the second part of the model number, for example WD5000AAVS-00ZTBO would also be spider family

Funny thing, this morning I have a client to recover from this model, exactly the same !!

Problem is, drive still detected normally, complete with firmware and serial number, but no access to user data area. DE always replied with error at any sector (solution is : as usual - )

@crecomp, what is the problem with your client's drive ?

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hi
thx for all answers

initial problem with drive is it came from another company.
Smooth chip was blown , customer game them a matching donor board he had, they replaced smooth chip drive will still not power up.

with another donor i have drive will power up, spin up, click softly but will not id.
i tired accessing SA to get copy of rom image from drive so that i can have correct rom on the board but cant access any of the modules on the drive.

it looks like this drive is still not supported by pc3000 but should be in the next update i have been told.

tried other families but cant access SA on the drive so i guess this can be either more damage with the drive or as it is the wrong family it wont let me read the modules i need.

i thought of moving the rom chip to the donor board, as it is a larger chip it will require precise work but i have a concern that as the smooth chip was damaged possibly other parets may be damamged including rom chip so deciding onj what to do

Is ROM not built in to the MCU in this one?

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You don't have to backup all of your files, just the ones you want to keep.

it is built in , why cant there be a simple u12 like the other boards

Yeah, the worst is when they tease you with an empty U12 spot on the PCB.

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You don't have to backup all of your files, just the ones you want to keep.

version 4.2 should support this repair in pc3000 ive been told but not sure when it will be released exactly.

has anyone moved rom chips for this drive?

You're talking about moving the MCU?

AFAIK that should require a BGA rework station.

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You don't have to backup all of your files, just the ones you want to keep.

definitely does require a good rework station to do this job,
just wondering about success rates for these jobs, i know it really depends on the person and the tools and how well they can workk, but as rom is contained in the chip, i guess moving it should hopefully solve rom isses

Just make sure you don't mix them up
If I'm not mistaken there are two different Spider families (not compatible with each other) and at least three Hulks

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That's an excellent question

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PCB fried preamp
Very common problem on WDs
That's a hard work - good luck

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