Hello,

I have a WD2500JS-75NCB1 Hawk that is driving me crazy, PCB has been changed. No difference. Heads have been changed - at least 4 different sets. No improvement. Donor heads all work when put back in original drives, so no media damage. Hotswap/Smart hotswap work but only for about 300k sectors and then clicks and times out. Micro jog on swapped heads is close enough.
Do I'm missing something?

Thank you

At least NOW you can access SA ? (What was the original problem ?)
Seems more a SA related problem (translator/corruption in some part) than physical, but everything can be.

Thank you for your response BlackST,

Yes I got access to SA, original problem was the heads, I'm able to pull modules copy1 only copy0 failed. I have rebiuld translator and same issues, reads few 100k and then stay in busy.

Build heads map and see where it stops and which head, then turn off that head and image. Also try imaging backward.

yeah. for this kind of drive i often image one by one(head)

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