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
May 27th, 2010, 11:58
Hello,
I have a WD2500JS-75NCB1 Hawk that is driving me crazy, PCB has been changed. No difference. Heads have been changed - at least 4 different sets. No improvement. Donor heads all work when put back in original drives, so no media damage. Hotswap/Smart hotswap work but only for about 300k sectors and then clicks and times out. Micro jog on swapped heads is close enough.
Do I'm missing something?
Thank you
May 27th, 2010, 12:07
At least NOW you can access SA ? (What was the original problem ?)
Seems more a SA related problem (translator/corruption in some part) than physical, but everything can be.
May 27th, 2010, 12:14
Thank you for your response BlackST,
Yes I got access to SA, original problem was the heads, I'm able to pull modules copy1 only copy0 failed. I have rebiuld translator and same issues, reads few 100k and then stay in busy.
May 27th, 2010, 15:47
Build heads map and see where it stops and which head, then turn off that head and image. Also try imaging backward.
May 27th, 2010, 19:27
porthas wrote:Build heads map and see where it stops and which head, then turn off that head and image. Also try imaging backward.
yeah. for this kind of drive i often image one by one(head)
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