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Strange behaviour of SP8004H

Posted: November 8th, 2007, 7:13
by dobrevjetser
Hi Friends,

Strange case with a samsung SP8004H
The drive came in with the SA badly damaged. Using composite reading, i could read all modules.
Writing the SA was not possible.
So i got an identical drive and made a hotswap.
I used DE to make a data-copy.

Strange thing is: All sectors that are read as good are empty, and the sectors read without CRC control contain valid data :?

I changed heads and could rewrite the SA modules, some are still damaged but not the critical ones. Still same problem. No data

I also tried to read the entire disk without CRC, but that is not giving good result.

Anybody a suggestion?

Thanks in advance,

Dobre

Re: Strange behaviour of SP8004H

Posted: November 12th, 2007, 0:30
by beto
Hello dobrevjester


when u read the sectors did u get some error“s UNC; IDNF; ABRT ?


Best Regards

Re: Strange behaviour of SP8004H

Posted: November 12th, 2007, 5:08
by dobrevjetser
Hi Alberto,

Most errors are UNC but sometimes it is also AMN.

Dobre