My Passport 2TB Strange Case...

I have this WD20NMVW-11AV3S3, 2TB My Passport.
After converting to SATA, I got ROM F/W... NOT_INIT from log (Image attached)
The Drive keeps spinning, no Model, Serial and F/W.

I tried writing ROM Via Boot ROM, and Also physically transferred it, still the same result..

Has anyone experienced this kind of case in the past...?? Please see attached image.
 

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Jared

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Perhaps you should also post the ROM code so we can look at it or try it on a PCB ourselves.
 
Thanks Luke..

But why is the ROM Version saying NOT_INIT ?
The Drive keeps spinning which shows Heads are still good to the best of my knowledge, or is the ROM bad ?
 

Jared

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I actually already took a look remotely and it is indeed a mystery. ROM on USB board shows correct ROM revision, but on a SATA board it's like it's only loading half the ROM modules. ROM revision does indeed show NOT_Init instead of the version. My initial thought was that it wasn't a good read of the ROM, but I read it again myself using boot ROM code, wrote it to a SATA PCB using boot ROM code as well, but same result.



When I get in the office tomorrow maybe I'll try writing the ROM code to a few different revision PCBs I have and see if it's just something related to the PCB hardware revision or something like that.
 

jol

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After flashing the ROM to the SATA PCB, can you read the ROM from the SATA PCB and upload here ?
 
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