Not my week - WD5000AAKS imaging problems

[mattbrad2]

These tornado drives are usually hit or miss. They'll either come ready and image with a faw bad sectors or click and spin down. I received one yesterday that will image (using DDI) the last 65% of the drive with no problems at all. The 1st 35% of the drive however hangs on what seems like every sector. The drive has to re-power for it to come ready again; it'll read a block then hang again and the cycle continues like this. I've tweaked every setting I know. Forcing LBA28 and ignoring ECC will just read the same data from every block (I've tried bouncing all over the drive and its the same data so something apparently is not right). If I could get a good MFT and BITMAP I'd feel a lot more comfortable reading just the data the customer is interested in but alas, it fails reading this information. Any ideas?

[CK]

It's a common issue on AAKS series. Drive will power cycle on every sector, normally on first 33% of the drive. Hint: Not heads related.

[jono-ats]

Bad PCB.

[lcoughey]

Bad PCB.

I second that. If you can't handle it, I'm sure Jono is more than capable and willing to help you out.

[mattbrad2]

Since adaptives are stored in the marvel IC on this family, can I transplant this vs reprogramming the new board? I have a few tornado drives in my stock pile but no U12 on these.

[lcoughey]

Since adaptives are stored in the marvel IC on this family, can I transplant this vs reprogramming the new board? I have a few tornado drives in my stock pile but no U12 on these.

It certainly is a lot more complicated than the 5 or 10 minutes needed to reprogram the donor PCB. Again, check with Jono to see what he would charge to reprogram your donor PCB.

[seed.helper]

is my drive from this batch problematic ??



mine is been flawless since 2007

not even a warning in smart

just for curiosity

[Alexii]

Yes Helper. Ur drive is a tornado as well. It is known to be funky.