Hello,

I'm working with a Hitachi HTS541010A9E680 drive which fell off the table and stopped being recognized - well, kind of obvious. Using PC3k I have imaged H0, H1, and H2 so far. But H3 is damaged and although I can read without ECC uncorrectable errors (all light green in DE), it reads at a rate of 1-2 LBAps. Autoreassign in HDD configuration is switched off. In your experience, is there anything else I can do before replacing HSA? Reading through the Utility (task params options) does not ask for any further configuration and says "activated successfully" straight away, reducing speed to about 0.2 LBAps - it seems to read sector by sector, instead of issuing n-block reading commands.

Cheers

Change the heads, before that suspect one fails completely and damages the surface beyond recovery.

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Agreed Change Heads it will Help ....

OK, thank you guys. That's what I will do.

Cheers