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 Post subject: NVRAM location HTS541010A7360
PostPosted: June 15th, 2021, 7:08 
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Can someone please confirm for me where NVRAM is located on this model? Embedded in MCU?


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PostPosted: June 15th, 2021, 8:39 
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PostPosted: June 15th, 2021, 8:47 
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Judging by the pcb layout, my guess would be botom right near the screw hole.

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PostPosted: June 15th, 2021, 13:27 
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LE25FU406B, Sanyo, 4M-bit (512Kx8), 2.3V - 3.6V, Serial Flash Memory:
https://media.digikey.com/pdf/Data%20Sheets/ON%20Semiconductor%20PDFs/LE25FU406B.pdf
http://semicon.sanyo.com/en/ds_e/ENA1066E.pdf
http://pdf.datasheetarchive.com/indexerfiles/Datasheets-SW5/DSASW0080400.pdf

http://www.users.on.net/~fzabkar/Datasheets/DATAURLS.HTM

TCV7104FN, Toshiba, buck DC-DC converter, 2.7V - 5.5 Vin, marking V104, SON-8:
https://np.micro-semiconductor.hk/datasheet/07-TCV7104FN(TE85L,F).pdf

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PostPosted: June 17th, 2021, 5:57 
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Drive has a damaged PCB so I've already moved that IC in question to compatible donor PCB. The 8 pin IC bottom right of the PCB pic. Problem is, patient won't spin with donor PCB and patient ROM.

Drive does come DRD DSC and reports correct S/N, but will not spin. Patient with donor PCB and donor ROM does spin, ID's with donor S/N but obviously no LBA access.

Trying to figure out why patient with donor PCB and patient ROM will not spin. Thought perhaps NVRAM was situated elsewhere and wasn't part of ROM IC?


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PostPosted: June 17th, 2021, 11:05 
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i recall like these were built with 2 different spindle controllers and they are not compatible, so check the numbers on it on both pcbs.

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The two different motor controllers appear to be TLS2604 and R42AAJ.

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Thanks fzabkar and pepe. My first donor PCB did indeed have a different motor controller. Patient was TLS2604 and donor was R42AAJ. Wrote ROM to another donor PCB with matching TLS2604 and case solved. Seems I was trying to overcomplicate this case when it was just a matter of matching PCB properly. Thanks guys.


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PostPosted: June 18th, 2021, 19:17 
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This supplier ...

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32789772849.html
https://ae01.alicdn.com/kf/HTB1u0b5PXXXXXXzaFXXq6xXFXXXD/HDD-PCB-for-Hitich-Logic-Board-Board-number-420-0A90415-01-Main-Controller-IC-88i9305-NDB2.jpg

... claims that "both [HDD Motor Combo] IC is compatible with each other", but they also identify the Marvell MCU as the "BIOS chip".

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PostPosted: June 18th, 2021, 19:56 
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It might be interesting to compare the donor and patient ROMs to see whether the difference is in the ROM code or the NVRAM.

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It would be interesting but also a tedious task to find the differences responsible for handling the spindle controller... and what would we do with the info?
It would be more interesting to get a drive read with the other type of pcb, with the donor fw, and this is something less complicated and time consuming.

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I was thinking that one could transfer the NVRAM from patient to donor rather than ROM + NVRAM, assuming that the differences were in the ROM code.

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 Post subject: Re: NVRAM location HTS541010A7360
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that doesn't work on its own.

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pepe wrote:
that doesn't work on its own.

I understand, but PC3K users know how to modify an NVRAM to make it compatible with a donor ROM, do they not?

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 Post subject: Re: NVRAM location HTS541010A7360
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It is not a question of being a PC3k user IMO, some people know, but the most doesn't, probably.

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