Thanks for the confirmation on the rom, I was beginning to second guess myself.
pepe wrote:
does it start (move heads) with the donor pcb?
No movement at all regardless of PCB, even thought for a minute I may have bent a connector pin or nicked the coil removing the magnet but I can't see any damage. I'd have expect even with a none compatible or damaged HSA to at least hear an attempt to init.
Will confirm later by putting patient pcb on a working donor #2 when it arrives just in case this is something model specific. Have already tried patient pcb on a different model and the drive clicks as expected. Drive was fine after, so the patient pcb didn't kill the HSA either.
I just don't understand why the drive comes ready.
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