Data recovery and disk repair questions and discussions related to old-fashioned SATA, SAS, SCSI, IDE, MFM hard drives - any type of storage device that has moving parts
April 19th, 2010, 18:01
Patient drive 0 LBA no drive ID, drive comes ready, ID as Torrent family, but can not load the HDD. Gives errors when loading and says can not find Mod 02. It was possible to make a back up copy of the ROM on this drive.
Donor drive - backup all information on Donor drive, prepared donor drive for hot swaping, did hot swap to patient drive, still could not read from patient drive after hot swap. When I put the donor pcb back on donor drive the pcb board is dead now only power to pcb board and nothing else.
2nd donor drive - back up all information on the second donor drive. This time moved pcb to patient drive and started patient drive. Drive IDed correctly but showed only 14GB in size of drive. Now write patient rom to pcb of donor pcb. After rom was written the pcb was powerd off and on and went back to utility and it was recognized as Torrent but when started gave same results as if original pcb was attached to the drive.
Move donor pcb back to donor drive and rewrote the ROM back to the pcb board the one I had saved. All wrote fine to the pcb board and ROM wrote back. Power off and on started again in utility and I have a non working drive here now on this one. I tried to rebuild the ROM from SA modules I had backed up before moving pcb board. It will rebuild the ROM but will nto work again on the donor drive.
I had same issue with WD7500AACS-00D6B1 - I buy this drvie new to fix another one. I have written patient ROM to this board and used it and then wrote back the original ROM to this board and it works fine again on the HDD. I have done this more than once on this.
Does anyone know what might be the issue with the WD5000AAKS patient drive and why it is killing my donor pcb boards and I can not get them to work again after putting them on this drive. Is this a head issue on here or is there something that is corrupting the ROM in my donor pcb boards?
Does anyone have any ideas on this one and can PM please thanks. Seems strange that 2 PCB boards are dead and can not write back original rom to them when I know it is possible and have done it more than once on other drives.
April 19th, 2010, 21:12
may be produce is incorrect.
April 19th, 2010, 21:50
No it is not wrong procedure. Patient drive is destroying the donor pcb boards when they are attached to it. That is what is wrong. Once you write patient rom to the donor pcb board it is not possible to write back original rom to this pcb board again. It kills the board.
I just tested it on this drive. WD3200AAJS-00VWA0 to write other ROM to PCB board and it writes fine and changes ROM. Then I write back original ROM and it writes it back and I can use drive again.
It works fine my procedure to do this one I have no problems on it at all.
April 19th, 2010, 22:07
poehere wrote:No it is not wrong procedure. Patient drive is destroying the donor pcb boards when they are attached to it. That is what is wrong. Once you write patient rom to the donor pcb board it is not possible to write back original rom to this pcb board again. It kills the board.
I just tested it on this drive. WD3200AAJS-00VWA0 to write other ROM to PCB board and it writes fine and changes ROM. Then I write back original ROM and it writes it back and I can use drive again.
It works fine my procedure to do this one I have no problems on it at all.
Simple Question,
You Tried With Salvation WD doctor Or PC-3000
April 19th, 2010, 22:30
PC3000 SD tools do not work on this board at all only working on PC3000 UDMA
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