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ontariotech
 Post subject: How does use of a damaged drive affect the firmware?
PostPosted: August 23rd, 2014, 14:49 
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How does use of a damaged drive (e.g. bad heads) affect the firmware?

For example, will using a drive with a damaged head eventually lead to corrupt firmware as well?
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 Post subject: Re: How does use of a damaged drive affect the firmware?
PostPosted: August 25th, 2014, 6:09 
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Is not recomended to use damaged heads, because can damage media and FW.
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ontariotech
 Post subject: Re: How does use of a damaged drive affect the firmware?
PostPosted: September 1st, 2014, 15:50 
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ok thanks hhddrec.

Does anyone else have anything to say on this?

Does firmware get damaged by using a faulty drive?
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mr_spokk
 Post subject: Re: How does use of a damaged drive affect the firmware?
PostPosted: September 1st, 2014, 16:23 
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Yes, it builds up a large defect list and could overflow it to the point that the drive will not start.

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 Post subject: Re: How does use of a damaged drive affect the firmware?
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Main problem comes from the drives inability to write back critical dynamic firmware modules , (If the firmware resides on a surface with damaged head/s)

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hhddrec
 Post subject: Re: How does use of a damaged drive affect the firmware?
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smart words here.
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