Data recovery and disk repair questions and discussions related to old-fashioned SATA, SAS, SCSI, IDE, MFM hard drives - any type of storage device that has moving parts
March 23rd, 2007, 14:58
I would appreciate a lot if you could give me a link or send firmware for Maxtor Diamond Plus 9 80Gb 133/2Mb 6Y080L0. It is visible in bios as Calypso III (not as originally Maxtor Diamond Plus) and I had electricity problem which made my drive of of the function. All instructions and software about reparing firmware are the most welcome.
March 23rd, 2007, 16:58
This is where u will find firmware :
http://files.hddguru.com/index.php?&dir ... OR/CALYPSO
U would need pc3000 or salvation data to fix the drive .
March 23rd, 2007, 18:37
thank you for the link, I downloaded the rar file, but I do not have that p-3000 hardware. would you tell me if it is possible to do firmware repair with some other method.
March 24th, 2007, 2:35
no other method even if u get a freeware for repairing firmware its not good enough and if u dont have experience and good knowledge of hdd then its very risky to work with the firmware of the hdd as u could destroy the hdd.
March 26th, 2007, 5:58
Thank you for reply. After making few more checks it was directed to thought that my heads were not reading anymore. tharefore, would you tell me information what heads I could use to swap with mine. The Maxtor model I have is
DiamondMax Plus 9
Model: 6Y080LO
Firmware: YAR41BWO
What about models 6Y080M0 or something like that.
Veni K.
March 26th, 2007, 15:10
Read the Head stack article it will help u alot
http://hddguru.com/content/en/articles/ ... k-Q-and-A/
and if the hdd is showing Calypso in bios it could also be a firmware problem how could u be so sure that it is a head problem ?
March 27th, 2007, 8:57
What I can say for sure is that I am confused right now. PoweMax from Maxtor site says it is Read Write failure and I concluded it could be head problem. If it is firmware, how could I know until somebody try to repair it somehow. It is obvious that I do not know how, fully aware that I do not have that pc-3000 peice. Do you have suggestion about some diagniostic method.
March 27th, 2007, 14:36
If the hdd show Maxtor Calipso and is not clicking when starts then there is a chance that it is not a head problem . if u need to diagnose what is the real problem y can do that by pc3000 only .
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