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Tonka2 always busy

August 2nd, 2012, 15:03

Got a tonka 2 always busy,
creating loader bring the disk to ready state and to ID's,
but all sectors are blacks..
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Re: Tonka2 always busy

August 3rd, 2012, 3:03

terminal?

Re: Tonka2 always busy

August 5th, 2012, 15:48

northwind wrote:terminal?


i attached here
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Re: Tonka2 always busy

August 6th, 2012, 3:25

Code:
Failed sys sect. write!

Code:
Add To Pending 5557555


A lot of errors. Did you try pending bug solution? I doubt it will work (i think more serious problem is there) but it doesn't hurt to try...

Re: Tonka2 always busy

August 6th, 2012, 16:09

yep i tryed. head swap worked, looks like this old drive flake the platter and lead to head contamination..
data all recovered, happy customer.
i love when hard drives have got only 1 head :D

Re: Tonka2 always busy

August 7th, 2012, 2:15

Good job :)

Congrats.
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