is it possible to spin up a seagate HDD without firmware chip.
here is the situation
one of my friend gave me a Seagate 160 gb , it dose not spinup,
i got a seagate 80gb HDD and put it's board to 160 gb, it spin up
so i de assembled the board, the problem was texas SH6950 D chip. i did put back the faulty chip, but not the SPI ROM.
now i found a working SH6950 D and put it on the board.
now the disk do not spin up, coz i've lost the SPI ROM chip

here is HDD DATA
HDD = 160 GB
Model = ST3160023AS
P/N = 9W2814-130
HDA P/N = 100316762
Config Level = 9SMA1
Config Code = B2P-01
Firmware = 3.20
HDD Board : 100306336 rev a
date code 05037

chips
LSI Logic L2c2368pl
ST 100276130
winbond w9864i6dh-6
Texas SH6950 D

if anyone got this drive, plz let me know what is the model no of its SPI ROM chip, coz i need to look in my stuff boxes.

WHAT SHOULD I DO

SOS

You should seek help from a pro, you need the ROM.

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Data Recovery Ireland

unfortunately in my country i'm a one, in here there is no community like this, no one helps others, but some..

so i need to know SPI ROM Model, just in case i found it..

Nor problem for ROM same pcb with firmware same as your drive would work .
One more thing can u check again for fw i think it should be 3.02 .

no is is firmware 3.2. i got a pcb from 40 gb IDE one, put the board, not detecting,
shit man, modern HDDs are full of crap, i love old quantum drives, single pcb fro series of hdds, just like cpus, man.. modern hdds are more complicated..