hi all
i am having an ssue wih this drive and hoping somene can help here.
drive had head stuck on platter, freeed this correctly and drvie spun up and will show ID correctly, serial,model f/w and drive become ready straight away.

launched DE and am able to start imaging, the first 80000 blocks all go good and fast and then the drive starts to image extremly slow at about 1000 blocks a minute. during the imaging process it will encounter a bad block every 1000 ( an error prevented sector reading) but will still keep on imaging.

did a test as you will see below and am hoping to be able to get the drive working at a good spped to image the drive, as the curent speed will take a very long time to image.

Selected family......................... : HTS5416J9
Model by ID............................. : Hitachi HTS541680J9SA00

Techno mode key......................... : Ok
NV-RAM reading.......................... : Ok

Loading modules table................................................. : Ok
Loading the table of "open" modules................................... : Ok
Loading zone allocation table......................................... : Ok

Module RSVD Copy 0...................... : Ok
Module RSVD Copy 1...................... : Ok
Module RSVD Copy F...................... : Error
Module RESF Copy 0...................... : Ok
Module RESF Copy 1...................... : Ok
Module RESF Copy F...................... : Ok
Module RAM0 Copy 0...................... : Ok
Module RAM0 Copy 1...................... : Ok
Module RAM0 Copy F...................... : Ok
Module OVR0 Copy 0...................... : Ok
Module OVR0 Copy 1...................... : Ok
Module OVR0 Copy F...................... : Ok
Module RESF(1) Copy 0................... : Ok
Module RESF(1) Copy 1................... : Ok
Module RESF(1) Copy F................... : Ok
Module PTCH Copy 0...................... : Ok
Module PTCH Copy 1...................... : Ok
Module PTCH Copy F...................... : Ok
Module CNS1 Copy 0...................... : Ok
Module CNS1 Copy 1...................... : Ok
Module CNS1 Copy F...................... : Ok
Module RWCN Copy 0...................... : Ok
Module RWCN Copy 1...................... : Ok
Module RWCN Copy F...................... : Ok
Module ZONE Copy 1...................... : Ok
Module ZONE Copy F...................... : Ok
Module PTRT Copy 0...................... : Ok
Module PTRT Copy 1...................... : Ok
Module PTRT Copy F...................... : Ok
Module SRVP Copy 0...................... : Ok
Module SRVP Copy 1...................... : Ok
Module SRVP Copy F...................... : Ok
Module SRVM Copy 0...................... : Ok
Module SRVM Copy 1...................... : Ok
Module SRVM Copy F...................... : Ok
Module CHNL Copy 0...................... : Ok
Module CHNL Copy 1...................... : Ok
Module CHNL Copy F...................... : Ok
Module IDNT Copy 0...................... : Ok
Module IDNT Copy 1...................... : Ok
Module IDNT Copy F...................... : Ok
Module SN00 Copy 0...................... : Ok
Module SN00 Copy 1...................... : Ok
Module SN00 Copy F...................... : Ok
Module MISC Copy 0...................... : Ok
Module MISC Copy 1...................... : Ok
Module MISC Copy F...................... : Ok
Module ICES Copy 0...................... : Ok
Module ICES Copy 1...................... : Ok
Module ICES Copy F...................... : Ok
Module MLBA Copy 0...................... : Ok
Module MLBA Copy 1...................... : Ok
Module MLBA Copy F...................... : Ok
Module QMCN Copy 0...................... : Ok
Module QMCN Copy 1...................... : Ok
Module QMCN Copy F...................... : Ok
Module SMRT Copy 0...................... : Ok
Module SMRT Copy 1...................... : Error
Module SMRT Copy F...................... : Ok
Module PNID Copy 0...................... : Ok
Module PNID Copy 1...................... : Ok
Module PNID Copy F...................... : Ok
Module ABLP Copy 0...................... : Ok
Module ABLP Copy 1...................... : Ok
Module ABLP Copy F...................... : Ok
Module ABLD Copy 0...................... : Ok
Module ABLD Copy 1...................... : Ok
Module ABLD Copy F...................... : Ok
Module SSTL Copy 0...................... : Ok
Module SSTL Copy 1...................... : Ok
Module SSTL Copy F...................... : Ok
Module SERL Copy 0...................... : Ok
Module SERL Copy 1...................... : Ok
Module SERL Copy F...................... : Ok
Module SSST Copy 0...................... : Ok
Module SSST Copy 1...................... : Ok
Module SSST Copy F...................... : Ok
Module SKPO Copy 0...................... : Ok
Module SKPO Copy 1...................... : Ok
Module SKPO Copy F...................... : Ok
Module DCOT Copy 0...................... : Ok
Module DCOT Copy 1...................... : Ok
Module DCOT Copy F...................... : Ok
Module SRIF Copy 0...................... : Ok
Module SRIF Copy 1...................... : Ok
Module SRIF Copy F...................... : Ok
Module ALTT Copy 0...................... : Ok
Module ALTT Copy 1...................... : Ok
Module ALTT Copy F...................... : Ok
Module RDMT Copy 0...................... : Ok
Module RDMT Copy 1...................... : Error
Module RDMT Copy F...................... : Ok
Module RELI Copy 0...................... : Ok
Module RELI Copy 1...................... : Ok
Module RELI Copy F...................... : Ok
Module PSHT Copy 0...................... : Ok
Module PSHT Copy 1...................... : Ok
Module PSHT Copy F...................... : Ok
Module OVR1 Copy 0...................... : Ok
Module OVR1 Copy 1...................... : Ok
Module SPRE Copy 0...................... : Ok
Module SPRE Copy 1...................... : Ok
Module PESD............................. : Ok
Module MFGP............................. : Ok
Module SRST............................. : Ok
Module FLOG............................. : Ok
Module DUMP............................. : Error
Module ELG1............................. : Ok
Module ELG2............................. : Ok
Module EVLG............................. : Ok
Module PIDM............................. : Ok
Module AMPM............................. : Ok
Module HLR1............................. : Ok
Module HLR2............................. : Ok
Module MFGT............................. : Ok
Module DDD0............................. : Ok
Module MRDM............................. : Ok
Module DIAG............................. : Ok
Module WRT0............................. : Error
Module WRT1............................. : Error
Module @@01............................. : Ok
Module @@02............................. : Ok

Thank you in advance

Check heads, media damage and repair firmware.

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Hi, thank you for the quick reply

i have tried new heads and am having the same result exactly, platter does not have any scratches on top when looked at with microscope so all looks clean,

i have also tried imaging in reverse, imaging in different parts of the drive all with same results.

looking at the log attached did you see anything in particular in the F/w which was in need of repair

thank you

Also finding a lot of media issues on HTS5416 drives.

Got a 120Gb in the other day with 3 heads... H1 perfect, H0 and H2 have horrendous bad sectors in large patches.

Known good heads produce the same results on the same sectors and the patient heads work 100% in the donor I took the replacement heads out of.

In rarer cases I'm also finding this on some newer Toshiba drives, one surface will image perfectly and the other very poorly. Again the fault follows the media rather than the heads. It's usually the top surface that's bad so I have a theory that it could be when the lid gets sqashed, for example when the latop gets trodden on, and causes the top head to come into contact (albeit briefly and lightly) with the top platter causing the problems. Not always the case I'm sure, but could well be a contributary factor in these cases.

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hi pcimage

did you manage to work out a way to image the drive or is it really a matter of being very patient during the imaging process, lately i have had a couple of drives that it has really been a matter of waiting very patiently for the drive to jst image as othing else that i have done has made the imaging go any faster

by the way, i also tried to image this drive with Atola and have the same issues, however in this particular case the Atola is not even imaging as well as the pc3000, Atola keeps on saying it is a problem with the heads and this is reported on 2 heads, the heads on the drive currently are definitely not faulty

thx for reply

patience is key. Can't you just target critical data to speed up this process?

Media damaged on this family like pcimage said ,we are working on similar case, we use 3 donnors to get sectors because kill our donnors, after that process we got like 50% of data MFT records, directory, structure , but still there are some files on 00´s we need to tried 4th donnor , to tried to get more percentage of sucess on this case

.. and also on WD. I had recently a WD1600BEVS that had problems on H02+03. Heads worked perfectly in another drive.

Arthur

These dont happen to be mac-drives ?

Dobre

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thank you for the replies guys

this one i am working on is not a mac drive

Got HT5432 and doing the same thing... Took about a week to complete the imaging to recover about 60%. Lots of big patch of bad sectors. HSA swap yield the same result and the patient HSA worked fine on the donor. FW test showed error in DUMP on SA-A and SA-B and error on RSVD in SA-C in this case...

had the drive imaging overnight and it only got through 1 million blocks so it is very slow, it satarted off promisng and looked like it wuold do about 15 million per day but then it got stuck on a whole batch of black unreadable blocks and just sits there very slow, will look at modifying my paramaters.

Every Hitachi has errors in dump module.