Recent content by jmbach

That is good and thanks for posting the follow up solution.

What kind of anomalies are you experiencing with the RAID system. How is the RAID behaving. My experience is mostly with internal RAID controllers on servers.

HDAT2 was a no go on reset. Which is why I am contemplating modifying the appropriate module. Is there standard within or between manufacturers of what the modules functions as/represent?

Module ID 1050 That is very good to know Thanks. I would not have expected that. It is a WD40NPZZ. Tried HDAT2 but it displays limited options to set as compared to other drives.

I appreciate the time and information you have given me so far. Reverse engineering and decompiling tools I have. I have surmised sofar that the firmware on the chip starts the boot process for the drive and it is finished after certain modules are loaded into the ram and execution is...

Thanks for the realistic response. Well unless I am going into professional disk recovery, that is not going to happen. And I am not going into professional disk recovery. I understand my limitations and am okay with that. There are a few programs out there of reasonable cost that allow you...

I am Jim from Tennessee. I am here to learn. More interested in firmware recovery than data recovery and it is more for my own interests than anything else. I have a small number of hard drives I have collected over the years that power on and is recognized by the computer but fail in various...