-=BR=- wrote:
So if people are exchanging tips, here is mine:
Sometimes when fujitsu won't spindle at all and you change the pcb with a close match (even a perfect match) but drive starts to spin is not being detected or produce the famous "clacking sound", this cab be caused by rom adaptives. Try to access the bad pcb in kernel mode, extract the rom and write it in the working pcb. This method worked for me a couple of times

(and can also work when the working pcb ISN'T a perfect match)
Regards
-=BR=-
so you read the ROM of a bad pcb in kernel mode. ??
mmmmm, so far I cannot do this with a bad pcb.
I have had bad ROM on pcb which have re-written, but never read a bad pcb.