Hey guys,

I'm having issues with a Fujitsu MHW2120BH. Right now, the drive clicks for a little bit and then goes ready (even sometimes IDs). Originally, the drive was just clicking and would never go ready - I swapped the heads and got the symptoms I'm seeing now. I know the headswap was good because I swapped them back to the donor it worked fine. The specs for the original drive and donor are below. Do you think this is a SA issue? Hotswap didn't work either...

Original:
MHW2120BH
CA06820-B38800AP
655-1349B

Donor:
MHW2120BH
CA06820-B38700AP
655-1349A

Thanks in advance!

Did you try imaging it?

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Yep, I've tried it in DDI and Data Extractor - it can't read anything (forwards and reverse).

Did you build a map?

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Rebuild the heads map? Yep, I did that too. It rebuilt fine, but still couldn't read anything.

If you are sure heads are good, then must be SA.

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Sorry for the post a bit off topic, but I have to deal with MHW2080BH, that ostinately says me only that it is in restricted mode.. Some advice would be welcome, thanks in advance, Uto

By "restricted mode" do you mean it is password locked?

No, or better, as I can see it's not password protected. The Disk ID, under PC3000, says the disk is not password protected, and the disk itself does'nt react when I try to unlock it by the master password.Additionally, even if the disk in the disk ID claims is able to erase the security, it is actually set to security level High, a security erase attempt fails. Thanks in advance.