While my experience has been great with these boards and not having to remove the caps from the original USB board, there have been a few times when that isn't the case. Until now, I haven't documented which drives need it, but figure it is better late than never. That said, it is also possible that...

Open the Western Digital Marvel utility on PC3000, click on Unlock SED HDD, select the saved ROM file, click Unlock HDD (with SA access) and then write that file back to the ROM with a programmer.

Weird, I've never seen that interface.

It has been over 7 years since I first got MRT and in all these years, they have yet to fix a simple issue of their adding a long string of text into a folder that they insist on creating in order to save the selected data into. So, rather than just save Root or, better yet, just the selected conten...

Best to reach out to Serge for those questions.

I haven't written Assembly code since the mid 90's. Can't say that I miss it, though it was the one course that landed me an A+ in computer science.

Thanks for the link

I can't find the post for that.

Email sent with a few different ROMs.

The SSD cache is toast on the patient board. It is just an odd duckling model where things just don't work like they should when writing the ROM to a donor board. In communicating with peers, it seems that I need a board that already has the same firmware on it, though I'm not convinced that it will...