Respected Guru's

I have received a WD400BB hard disk which detect it capacity correctly and get DRD DSC ready. I need data from it please guide me.

One more thing, when i do Plist and Glist reading in P-list there are 160 entry but G-list is completly empty.

And I have no doner PCB so have to do all work on the patient PCB only

When Power On and entered in WD marvel utility
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Tech on................................. : Ok

RAM:
Zone allocation table................... : HDDs RAM reading error Techno CMD sending error Device Error Detected 51/04 (ABR)

Head number reading..................... : Ok
Heads number............................ : 1

ROM:
ROM reading............................. : Ok
Heads configuration..................... : by map
Heads number............................ : 2
Heads number in use..................... : 1
Switched off heads...................... : Yes
Head map................................ : 0

Service area:
AS dir reading.......................... : Ok (Copy 0)
Configuration reading................... : Ok
Master Password......................... : has not been set
User Password........................... : has not been set
Model....................................................... WDC ROM MODEL--SABRE--
Serial number....................................... WDC-ROM SN# XYZ----

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And when I do AS verification :

SA surface verification
There is no deskription of SA in the zone allocation table

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When I do reading module all module check are ok in COPY0 but there is error in Copy1 it scans till module EE and gives error. But copy0 is ok so I think its ok.

Need data Please Help

Copy the good modules from Copy 0 and write to Copy 1 .

Thanks Rameez

but copy0 modules are ok. I think its G-list as it is empty in both copy0 and copy1.

DF

Hi,
Possible ROM corruption...
You can check rom with CHECK_FL
http://www.nazyura.newmail.ru/000006.htm
or simply use ROM from full working drive with the same version of ROM


If Marvell utility can't read RAM You can use previous version of Marvell utility...
or start Marvell utility with connected the same full-efficient drive... then change hdd...

Mikippp

I dont have doner hard disk. will try in morning. Thanks MIKI

DF

I have made it correct detecting in bios and it shows everything correctly. I have cloned it but the. Data is displaying garbage and with correct directory structure.

Now again it started detecting as factory alies. Please advice me I need data.

Thanks

DF

What did u do to fix problem ?
before it got bad again .

Did you check/clean contacts? Best guess would be PCB first as it worked for a while then went back to alias. If Copy 0 Glist is empty then so should be Copy 1. What about the other modules after EE are they OK or does it show more errors. I have a few WDXXXBB drives here that need new PCB some have read errors in SA but not always at the same place (gets worse the more you scan) I changed PCB on one and it had no SA errors at all with new PCB. The only way the G-list could be a problem is if it was cleared before you got the drive. Maybe try scan surface and try to write any bads into G-list and see if your data comes back.

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