cheadledatarecovery
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Hello all,
Well, it didn't take long. I received in my first PC-Shop mangled PCB that was on a Spyglass2 HDD. The PCB shop tried removing the ROM chip. That went wrong, and they managed to bend the PCB so that the BGA chip has detached. The original fault was that the USB connector was broken away. It could have been such an easy fix...
Using a SATA based PCB I can access SA, all heads respond OK. Of course the data is encrypted by SED V2. Emulating the encryption is not possible currently.
My only other thought is based on the presumption that the Marvell 88i1047 MCU contain the SED v2 locking mechanism, and the prospect of a CPU transplant to donor PCB. Has anyone tried this yet? I presume the USB_SATA controller is not required, as this can be bypassed to access unencrypted data via E71, E72 etc.
Regards,
John
Well, it didn't take long. I received in my first PC-Shop mangled PCB that was on a Spyglass2 HDD. The PCB shop tried removing the ROM chip. That went wrong, and they managed to bend the PCB so that the BGA chip has detached. The original fault was that the USB connector was broken away. It could have been such an easy fix...
Using a SATA based PCB I can access SA, all heads respond OK. Of course the data is encrypted by SED V2. Emulating the encryption is not possible currently.
My only other thought is based on the presumption that the Marvell 88i1047 MCU contain the SED v2 locking mechanism, and the prospect of a CPU transplant to donor PCB. Has anyone tried this yet? I presume the USB_SATA controller is not required, as this can be bypassed to access unencrypted data via E71, E72 etc.
Regards,
John