WD3200AAJS BSY

[Oyster55]

This WD3200AAJS stays BSY (busy) on PC3000 until
the red ERR light comes and then stops spinning.

I saved all the resources of the Donor controller card.

I put the Patient card on the Donor HDA and it becomes
Ready (after some clicking). It is identified properly as
Pinclite model, but can only start in Kernel mode with-
out errors. I am able to save the ROM and ROM modules
from the Patient controller to the database.

With the Donor card on the Patient HDA, I tried the
"ROM recovery" selection from the Tests menu. It starts
to run but fails halfway through because one of the
steps is to re-power of the drive - which fails because
nd that fails and the drives is BSY once more.

I reversed the procedure and was able to repair the
Donor card using Rom recovery.

I opened the HDA in our clean room and everything
looks brand new and perfect.

Now, I'm stuck.

Can someone offer me a next step??


Thanks!

-Oy
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[labtech]

It seems drive has problems with modules in the SA. Typically mod 11, at least.

[Oyster55]

Thank labtech. Any idea how to fix it? - based on the current
state, I admit I'm lost here.

Oy
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[labtech]

You claim you have PC3000. Should be fairly easy in theory.
Not sure what resources you have, but the first step is confirm mod 11 is the problem.

[Oyster55]

Thanks again labtech.

Yes I have it, but I only get kernel mode to
read ROM modules and 11 isn't one of them.

I cannot get to the SA, which is where mod
11 resides, I guess.

what would you do next...

-Oy
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[labtech]

use loader or hot swap procedure

[shahij]

use loader or hot swap procedure

How can he use LOADER while the HDD is BSY? Hotswap might help.

[labtech]

use loader or hot swap procedure

How can he use LOADER while the HDD is BSY? Hotswap might help.

OP said:
This WD3200AAJS stays BSY (busy) on PC3000 until
the red ERR light comes and then stops spinning.

As far as I recall, this is ready state with ERR. Could use loader in this scenario.
Could be wrong... Perhaps OP wants to post of picture or clarify.

[jono-ats]

Does the patient drive stay spinning with the donor PCB?