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    DIY Read Channel Shorting Tool

    Thank you for confirming this! After I manage to get the disk out of BUSY mode, will it be accessible on regular SATA? or is it a must to do some maintenance via Terminal first? The thing is that for this 7200.14 there is not much information regarding the terminal firmware fixes, and I...
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    DIY Read Channel Shorting Tool

    Hi, that's strange, I used the same image host as in my previous post. I don't even read poems... I guess you were getting some ads/pop-ups Anyway, I now used the direct link to my picture, with the voltages I measured:
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    DIY Read Channel Shorting Tool

    Thanks guys for the tips. I have measured today the voltages on those points: With the PCB mounted, they are around 1.28V-1.32V on all 4 points. With the PCB removed from the disk the 2 points on the left stay at about 0.25V , the 3rd point is at 0.75V and the 4th one 1.5V. This would mean...
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    DIY Read Channel Shorting Tool

    Hi Jared, thanks a lot for your kindness, indeed the PCB is very similar, however I found another similar board on HDDguru, and they point to the other pair, also in the video linked by michael chiklis there is a similar model and he shorts the other pair...
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    DIY Read Channel Shorting Tool

    Hi guys, My "famous" ST3000DM001 failed last week, and since then, I'm reading every forum and watching lots of data recovery videos (many thanks Jared, for your responses on YouTube :) ), and I'm begging to get quite a good picture regarding the recovery process. The subject started to...
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