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We have a PC-3000 but cant figure this drive out. Here's the rundown.
We have several donor drives that fit the requirements for being a useful donor.

Patient drive sustained water damage. We have original ROM chip soldered to a donor PCB. We put this PCB on one of the donor drives and it boots and goes ready no problem.

When we put this same PCB on our patient drive, we have several issues. The drive always stays busy. Sometimes we get errors stating "Adaptives Corrupt" or "version mismatch" in the terminal output. We have tried 5 sets of heads in the patient drive and we keep getting the same errors every time. We've tried booting the drive from various loader files and still no avail. The drives gets to a T> terminal however.

We dont have enough expertise to retrieve data. If anyone can help us through the process via remote support, or if anyone would like us to send the drive to them to fix, we will do so. Our customer is in a hurry to get his data back and we are spinning our wheels.

PM me if your interested with a price quote. We are serious and we will pay what is necessary and fair.

Spildit wrote:Sorry that i couldn't help you further with this issue.
Please let me know the outcome and if it was recoverable at all !
Wishing you luck.

If you have any more ideas that might work we are open to try them. Up to you if you think it would be worth a shot.

Yes we now believe the same thing. We just put another set of heads in from another donor that we knew was good. The patient drive sounded normal when we turned it on at first. Now it just clicks after a half hour of re-powering the drive several times.

PAKComputers wrote:Patient drive sustained water damage. We have original ROM chip soldered to a donor PCB.
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We dont have enough expertise to retrieve data. If anyone can help us through the process via remote support, or if anyone would like us to send the drive to them to fix, we will do so.

Looks like this is the same job: http://forum.hddguru.com/viewtopic.php?t=28704&f=1&start=0#p197580 or I'm wrong?

Anyway, please check your PM.

Yes, @Dmitri, it's the same job.

Above you can check what was attempted.

If you can provide further help please contact the OP.

Thanks again and wishing that the data can be recovered.

Regards.