TOSHIBA MK6034GSX COD reported as bad PCB?

[mediaman]

The disk has classic HSA symptoms but Atola 1.4 reports circuit board.

Any ideas?

Automatic Checkup Finished
Report date and time: 11/24/2009 at 7:30 PM
Device information:
TOSHIBA MK6034GSX
Serial number: X6F7T0AUT
Firmware revision: AH102E
Capacity: 117,210,240 sectors or 60,011,642,880 bytes
512 bytes per sector

Diagnostics results
According to the status register, circuit board is malfunctioning.
Full Diagnostic Log
Circuit Board (PCB)
Device is powered on. A power cycle is needed...
Applying power and watching spin-up currents...
Current oscillogram (12V):

Current oscillogram (5V):

Device is still not ready
Registers: 0101 0001 0001 0000 0000 0000 1010 Alt: 1010
According to the status register, circuit board is malfunctioning.
Heads
Head stack cannot be diagnosed.

[mediaman]

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[Dmitry Postrigan]

Hello Simon,

Sorry - I was traveling and unable to check the forum. If you need a fast reply, please use the Atola support forum (it is monitored by everyone at Atola Technology. You can access it by launching the Insight, and then navigating to Help->Support forum.

Now to your issue: can you please post the full log including the currents graph? You can export your log into .pdf or .rtf and then attach it here in the topic.

Thanks

[mediaman]

Here you go! Thanks Dmitry!

Attachments

TOSHIBA MK6034GSX.rtf

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[Dmitry Postrigan]

Simon,

Thanks for the file!

It could be either heads or pcb. At this point I would swap the ROM onto a good pcb and then re-ran the diagnostics.

[mediaman]

(furiously looking for donor) thanks Dmitry, will try and feedback results. What does that register value mean?

Attachments

[Dmitry Postrigan]

Simon,

From the registers I can say there's potentially an issue with the interface part of the pcb. From the current graph I can say there's head damage. The only way to clarify is to rule out the pcb first. You will need a donor anyway, be it heads or pcb

[mediaman]

to follow up: it was heads in the end.

[Russwinters]

Good news! PCB with those Toshiba drives is not something to look forward working with...big headache unless you have a lot of $$ for the right equipment.