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I am in need of help with a 7200.10 drive.

The drive was in a flood and burned the pcb at the motor controller.
I opened the drive and it is clean and dry.
I am unable to power the original pcb to retrieve any info.

The donor is the same fw version, with the flash transferred from the original pcb.

logs from the donor pcb on the patient drive:

Buzz HM SFI
!
(P)SATA Reset
DiskAccess ReadSector EC=47 at ffffffff.00.0002
DiskAccess ReadSector EC=47 at ffffffff.00.0002

Read Ver Retrys
DiskAccess ReadSector EC=47 at ffffffff.00.0002

Read Ver Retrys
DiskAccess ReadSector EC=47 at ffffffff.00.0002

Read Ver Retrys
DiskAccess ReadSector EC=47 at ffffffff.00.0002

Read Ver Retrys
DiskAccess ReadSector EC=47 at ffffffff.00.0002

Read Ver Failure!
DiskAccess ReadSector EC=47 at ffffffff.00.022b
Failed sys sect. write! Nwt Er 00 RdWr 15db7.00.022b
DiskAccess ReadSector EC=47 at ffffffff.00.0080
DiskAccess ReadSector EC=47 at ffffffff.00.0080
Unable To Load Overlay 01|000A

T>

Hello,
Load ATA module into RAM, then it will give you ready status,
after that open pc3000 data extractor then use its active utility options, to access hdd , try this

Regards
Waqas Ali
www.sediv.net

Spildit wrote:Hi again !
Please let us know if the drive cloned to the end and if you figured out what head was causing problems with the head map on DE.

As reference, of course that i didn't clear understood the log the first time i posted my reply.

As the OP drive was at T> level even with the ATA overlay errors that would mean that at least the adaptives and the APP was loaded from platter. If there were a problem loading App the drive would have dropped to F>

the more i test the more i understand and now i can clear vizualize all the initialization process of the barracuda type of drives.

Loading ATA from loader with pc3k and accessing the drive by the active utility on DE as suggested on this thread was of course the correct procedure.

On this particular case removing the heads and placing them back to the drive allow for the ATA to be loaded from the drive without error and for DE to slowly clone it.

I'm leaving this here for reference.

Well,
Alas they update thier manuals spildit they are dated the u5 family is recently updates though