Did a successful Seagate Freeplay swap with non matching donors:

Patient:
Seagate Freeplay 1TB
ST1000LM010
Site: SU

Donor:
Seagate Freeplay 1.5TB
ST1500LM003
Site: WU

Both 8 heads. Hope it helps someone.

Cheers.

In one case of 3TB internal disk WU & SU donor works and on the other hand we use a TK & TK donor for freeplay and guess what patient had 08 heads and donor has 06 heads. They surprise sometimes..

thanks for the sharing.

Definitely..
unless you find a perfect donor match.

the thread was about head swap ?
New Seagate (F3) adaptives on ROM module are unique to drive, yes.

Yes you give me confirmation of my research i told them on this forum that in some PCB swap working on ROM not necessary but nobody believe me.

I got successes with different model, different site code, different fw, different everything withing my experience all this things not necessary only Date code and country of manufacturing should be same.

I got this thing with my old hdd's experience i were working on 540 mb to 30 gb and no need work on ROM.

already complete freeplay donor match in WD,Seagate, Hitachi and Toshiba up to 2 TB.

I want to dedicate your invented name to this formula "Freeplay donor match"

Greetings !

I'm not quite sure I did understand, but Nick_ST just stated he did a successful swap using those 2 PCBs from different drives. He didn't mentioned anything about ROM.
It's quite obvious that he transferred the ROM from the patient to the donor as those are F3 arch drives and adaptives are stored on ROM.
Regarding the Seagate drives you will only get away without swapping ROM on models older then Barracuda 7200.10 and you still have to use the same ROM code / firmware version as in the patient drive.

OMG....DDI costs USD3600.

hm...............can anyone here show me any other option?

I bought a donor drive. Mine said WU for site. But the donor said TK for site. Everything is the same. I went to local data servicing places and asked them if you would me swap the heads. They refused because I have use their complete data recovery services which would cost anywhere from USD1000 and up. I do not know to swap these heads and afraid to do it myself


Can anyone here give me any other betters and/or advices other than paying these professions USD1000 and up with no guarantee?