Recent content by slingshot

I keep coming up against this issue and was wondering how you guys deal with it / sell it to customer ? The drive brand doesn't matter, although it's typically seagate or wd. The issue: The drive needs heads, but there are also some surface problems, so it will be physically impossible to...

Not sure how to get the best result possible from this one. Customer is a teacher, needs standard office files, pics and vids from drive. Drive had been elsewhere discussed here and after replacing the heads and weeks of imaging I've finally got all that can be read. Unread blocks are located...

Got this little gem that had been to another repair shop, obviously missing its label. Drive is horribly unstable but SA is fine. 3K ID's it as per the label :lol: :lol: but I'm a bit confused as the label gives me the idea its a 160GB drive yet the 3K shows it to be 1TB drive. Long story...

Got this weird issue going on where I'm imaging a couple of SAS drives using DE and the images have shifted their data by a few sectors. Obviously this is causing my array to be crud. Any ideas as to what may be the culprit ? I've done several this way with 100% success but tow of them are being...

Hi Guys Need a way to connect my 12 SATA clones of an SAS RAID job to my machine for config, any suggestion on a stable card for the job ?

Have swapped heads on this thing but struggling to get it to ID and then get past SED. I suspect platter damage on head 0 but drive is clean inside I have managed to get sector access after a lot of fiddling around but was then presented with the SED error. Trying to remedy this caused me to...

This PCB spins drive up, but stuck in BSY. This is the ROM loaded onto that PCB.

Cool, so same model number (is the SC3 code important, I can't find models with that), firmware number (is Rev important too?) and DOM as close to 01/2015. Do I need to hot swap the PCB over or just literally take it off donor, attach to patient and off you go ?

I cannot for the life of me find a serial number in this, maybe im overlooking something but I have compared other similar roms and found nothing. I have opened a rosewood rom and found the serial number by pasting it into the search, yet with this samsung I find nothing. I have uploaded it...

Cannot seem to get this thing out of BSY mode. Drive spins up but will not ID, its not noisy, clicks or anything nasty, just refuses to play. Get following in Terminal: ActiveFW : 00 FWVer : 0001 SATA PLL cal done DDR size detected = 16MB DDR size detected = 16MB *PAUNI_L2957*PA VID=0006...

Anyone got any experience with compatible donors for this drive, using the B6 04 Pre amp ?

Im struggling to find a donor drive for this. Ive been through all the ones Ive got in stock and none have a pre amp code anywhere near whats needed. I need a B6 04 pre amp and the closest I've got is a B6 64. It did ID the drive for a moment and then it gave up doing anything else, thats the...

Hi guys, I just want to double check compatibility before I scrap this case. Is the D drive a suitable candidate for head swapping into the P drive ? Thanks as always

What is the best method to remove dirt from heads when viewing through a microscope ? What would be used as the applicator and what would be cleaning agent ? Thanks as always for any info.