Have collected over the years a lot of maxtor hdd with hardware damaged sectors. Can some guru here explain me the simplest way of launching the selfscan procedure? Have read lot of post here but i'm still unclear about the way of running this "last resource". Don't mind me recovering the data, want only be able to re-use these harddisks in a decent manner-even those ones who will lost "weight" like 60GB--->40GB or even less!!
Thanks for your patience!

No one wants to show me the "right way"?

On which drive do u want to start self scan is it maxtor or some other brand if its maxtor then which cpu is it DSP or poker .

have all maxtor 30, 40, 80, 120, all IDE, don't looked for DSP or POKER yet, it's important to know?

Yes u need to see the cpu chip bcz if it is DSP then it is there is a simple procedure but for that u would need pc3k if it is poker then u need pci or mrt and isa .
u have any of these tools .

don't any of these tools. For the DSP at least what is the procedure? By the way Ardent and Agere are include in DSP, POKER or are different things though

yes Ardent and argere are included in Poker for starting selfscan on isa goto self scan menu press start selfscan option disconnect hdd and connect it to external power supply ..

This means that without special tools like pc3k, etc, there is nothing to do about selfscan lounching??

No one here can help me??

@rammez
No one can reply my question, please?!!

You can not do selftest without the tool, PC3000 ISA or PCI.