Hi,
i have got samsung 2,5 HM500II , family M7E.
drive goes in ready after 30 seconds.
i can access SA but some modules are demaged ( Alist for example ) and i can't access user data.
from head 2 i have saved sucesfully all modules, even the demaged ones.
So i tryed to save them into H 0,1 the utility say OK, but they are stay still demaged checking them after the write procedure.
ALIST stay in cylinder 2 , sector 469 and has a size of 131, so i assume that area is really demaged.
How can i move the allocation of that module, in order to save it succesfully?
[ i already tryed to erase all SA and write again all modules, but still have the same errors:
Read sector error (c: 2,h:0,s: 469); Device Error Detected 51/40 (UNC) ]

Maybe you can relocate SA modules through the SA modules table, I never try on Samsung.

But if you have all SA from other copy why do you not just make hotswap?

Becouse i do not have same samsung that match the pcb, i searched: very rare didn't find.

I have made heads swap right now with a donor quite compatible and i solved the firmware issue,
so the problem was there - maybe a weak head or demaged preamplifier could read but not write.
now i wrote all head 0 SA and the hard drives gets ready in few seconds ( before it was 1 minutes )
i can read all sectors exepts the first 0-600.000 lbas that are full of bad blocks.

Wrong tool ?

referring to bad sectors or re-alocation of modules in SA or...?

Mi riferisco a cosa stai usando per accedere al firmware....

It's about what you used to access firmware.