Recent content by ScotchBroth

I have a ton of DM donors in house right now so I REALLY don't want to order a VX drive to replace head 2. I have everything imaged except for that head. Anyone know if I can use DM heads on a VX drive? If not I'll order the dumb donor, but otherwise I'd love to use the stock that I have.

I got the full set a couple years ago and I've loved it. It was between ER and hdd surgery (a difference of several thousand dollars) and I went with ER. I only get sad when I have a drive that doesn't match and have to use cut up sudafed medicine blister packs instead.

Yes, making a bin image with DDI FE. When I plug the drive in, it can't see the bin file at all. I have to look at it with r-studio or something like it so get the image out usually.

Oh, and Paladin is free.

Bah, I hate that. Anyways, Paladin from Sumeri Forensics is a good bootable forensic imager. Good for PC and Mac. gotta be quick on the draw though with some bootup menus :D Speaking of forensic imaging, does anyone use the DDI forensic addon? Whenever I do to make a DD of a drive the...

I know I'm late to the party. But how'd it go? I have tons of tips for you depending on the state of the drive. You're likely done already, but I'm just wondering.

When I've gotten it it's been on FreeNAS systems.

If only it did ZFS too!

Here is the solution with the Toshiba adapter. I don't know if this will be of any help to anyone. Make sure that the drive is face up in this case. Sorry about the massive size...

Just confirmed that 701609-000 (internal ROM) works great as replacement for 701675-001 (internal ROM) Controller: 88i8946-TJF2

That did it. Got a new winbond chip (not the patient) into the spot and it detected like normal. Weird. And thanks for the help!

Haven't Moved a new chip there yet. That was my next step. I just didn't want to walk ALL THE WAY across the room to my soldering station.

Trying to transfer a ROM to this board. It has a U12 chip but when I connect to it via the COM port I get this result: System controller (SoC)................. : 88i9146B2 (0x7412) Internal ROM............................ : No External ROM............................ : No HDD...

Model: WD15EADS-11P8B1 ROM FW: 008000CA Family: DragFly3 PC3K

You're saying Model and capacity don't matter. But I'm guessing that family still matters? EDIT: I'm asking if anyone has tried a matching ROM F/W version from a different family.