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fzabkar

Post subject: Re: Samsung HM160JI

Posted: January 11th, 2014, 17:26

Joined: September 8th, 2009, 18:21
Posts: 16960
Location: Australia

Maybe try "SB FF" or "SB FE" ???

Have you tried the "PK" command? Would this have anything to do with autoparking ???

Please don't blame me if you break anything. :-)

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BlackST

Post subject: Re: Samsung HM160JI

Posted: January 12th, 2014, 6:41

Joined: July 18th, 2006, 3:05
Posts: 7476
Location: ITALY

If you continue playing with terminal that way you'll brick the drive for good...

P.s. some features and parameters can be soft or hard encoded into firmware.

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ShaneWard

Post subject: Re: Samsung HM160JI

Posted: January 12th, 2014, 7:51

Joined: July 2nd, 2011, 14:16
Posts: 463
Location: England

I've discovered the drive does not read very well, so the drive is only for playing around with. Not worried if I brick it.

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ShaneWard

Post subject: Re: Samsung HM160JI

Posted: January 12th, 2014, 13:14

Joined: July 2nd, 2011, 14:16
Posts: 463
Location: England

SB FF does something, but not sure what, any commands sent after that is just garbage. Have to reset to get the drive to work again in putty.

SB FE Seems to do nothing but display E:0002 - Inv Prm. Here is a copy of the log.

Quote:

1.5G Limited
SPW 1.5G Link Ok!
IS=+00005
Sp OK
H: +00000
Load
SK C: 000005D0
ENG>SRV>
SvoTbl Loaded
BD
ENG>SBxÈSb
SB FE
E:0002 - Inv Prm

E:0002 - Inv Prm
2àÎ`ø8þ`øøøþþþþþþþþþþþþ 1.5G Limited
SPW 1.5G Link Ok!
IS=+00000
Sp OK
H: +00000
Load
SK C: 000005BB
ENG>SRV>
SvoTbl Loaded
BD
ENG>Sb

E:0002 - Inv Prm
ENG>SB FEpÌÆ`ø8þ`øø 1.5G Limited
SPW 1.5G Link Ok!
IS=+00005
Sp OK
H: +00000
Load
SK C: 000005CA
ENG>SRV>
SvoTbl Loaded
BD
ENG>Sb

ENG>SB FE
E:0002 - Inv Prm
ENG>

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ShaneWard

Post subject: Re: Samsung HM160JI

Posted: January 12th, 2014, 13:19

Joined: July 2nd, 2011, 14:16
Posts: 463
Location: England

Entering PK will park the heads. Here is a log of the drive while I was playing a AVI movie file off it.

Quote:

1.5G Limited
SPW 1.5G Link Ok!
IS=+00000
Sp OK
H: +00000
Load
SK C: 000005C6
ENG>SRV>
SvoTbl Loaded
BD
ENG>pk
E:0001 - Inv Cmd
ENG>PK
ENG>Sb
Wk
Idl
Wk

ENG>ÿ¨KSb
Wk
Idl
Wk

ENG>PK
Sb
ENG>Wk

ENG>PK
ENG>PKSb
Wk

ENG>Sb

Wk - seems to wake the drive
Idl - seems to be the drive is Idle
Sb - seems to be Standby.

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ShaneWard

Post subject: Re: Samsung HM160JI

Posted: January 13th, 2014, 18:45

Joined: July 2nd, 2011, 14:16
Posts: 463
Location: England

Anyway to run the drive through its self test stuff like with the Seagate drives. I want to know how healthy the heads are. I think the read heads are week, probably due to all the standby attempts its done.

shane

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BlackST

Post subject: Re: Samsung HM160JI

Posted: January 14th, 2014, 9:15

Joined: July 18th, 2006, 3:05
Posts: 7476
Location: ITALY

You can test heads for functionality but the problem may be the surface, so it is pointless. I see it hard to do without resources, though...

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