Hello everyone,

I have a Seagate ST2000VX008 with a corrupted service area and I'm looking for a healthy donor ROM dump to repair it.

Drive details:
- Model: ST2000VX008
- Family: 59 - Bacall
- Heads: 04
- Build: 03/25/2015 16:37 0325
- MemberId: 04

Problem (via F3 ROM Explorer):
- DL_BFWDIR module: CRC mismatch (Bad) - in both BFWCTNR copies (0 and 1)
- IAP module: CRC FFFF (Bad) - in both copies
- All other modules (DL_BFWLDR, DL_BOOTFW, DL_SFW, DL_SHELL, DL_SAPM, DL_RAPM, DL_CAPM) read OK

I have already dumped my patient ROM via SPI (CH341A) and have full read/write access to the flash chip. I only need the BFWDIR and IAP modules extracted from a healthy donor with matching family/build so I can inject them via F3 and keep my drive's own adaptive/SAPM/RAPM/CAPM data intact.

If anyone has a matching or close-enough donor dump (same family, same or close build date, same head count), I would really appreciate it if you could share it or point me in the right direction. Happy to share my patient dump for reference/comparison if that helps.

Thank you in advance!
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IAP has no crc, so it is normal to be bad.
it would be good if you posted your rom image.
Also a terminal report when drive is powered on.

pepe

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Those CRC errors are usually benign. The segment starts life with a valid CRC, but Seagate gets lazy and doesn't always recalculate the CRC after modifying the segment. This is especially true if the copies in both containers are identical.

Does the drive spin up?

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