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- Tue May 21, 2024 2:18 am
- Forum: Hard Drive Diagnostic Tools
- Topic: SpinRite
- Replies: 211
- Views: 483551
Re: SpinRite
When it comes to mOLD and btec sectors on SMR Seagates, that actually may save a client's data from Spinrite, assuming that every read is with a long timeout. If under 500ms, those sectors will report as bad, rather than give garbage data. I can confirm that a Rosewood ST2000LM015-2E81 produced &qu...
- Sun May 19, 2024 10:39 pm
- Forum: MRT Western Digital Utility
- Topic: MRT USB to SATA probe board cap removal
- Replies: 5
- Views: 115
Re: MRT USB to SATA probe board cap removal
This is my guess as to the test point (X) for the Reset* pin on a 2060-810003 PCB. The bridge is an Asmedia ASM225CM.
- Sun May 19, 2024 8:57 pm
- Forum: MRT Western Digital Utility
- Topic: MRT USB to SATA probe board cap removal
- Replies: 5
- Views: 115
Re: MRT USB to SATA probe board cap removal
This is my guess as to the test point (X) for the Reset* pin on a 2060-800067 PCB. A point-to-point continuity test with a multimeter should confirm or reject my hypothesis.
- Sun May 19, 2024 8:05 pm
- Forum: MRT Western Digital Utility
- Topic: MRT USB to SATA probe board cap removal
- Replies: 5
- Views: 115
Re: MRT USB to SATA probe board cap removal
I suspect that these are the corresponding points for a 2060-800041 PCB. This PCB sometimes has a JMS569 bridge (https://www.zeroalpha.com.au/images/RTF ... ert-2.webp).
- Sun May 19, 2024 7:31 pm
- Forum: MRT Western Digital Utility
- Topic: MRT USB to SATA probe board cap removal
- Replies: 5
- Views: 115
Re: MRT USB to SATA probe board cap removal
A photo of this area on a 2060-800069 PCB confirms the connections to pin #38. Shorting point X to ground should keep the bridge in a reset state.
If this works, then you might want to ask MRT to add a switched, grounded pogo-pin for point X.
If this works, then you might want to ask MRT to add a switched, grounded pogo-pin for point X.
- Fri May 17, 2024 9:01 pm
- Forum: MRT Western Digital Utility
- Topic: MRT USB to SATA probe board cap removal
- Replies: 5
- Views: 115
Re: MRT USB to SATA probe board cap removal
AIUI, your PCB is 2060-810035. Here are two photos: https://www.zeroalpha.com.au/images/RTFM/2060-810035.jpg https://recuperodatos.com/sites/default/files/webform/donantes/06326-PCB.jpg The first has a JMicron JMS579 bridge while the second has an Asmedia ASM1151W. These two bridges appear to be pin...
- Sat Apr 20, 2024 6:48 pm
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: Learning ASM
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1155
Re: Learning ASM
I'm hardly the person to be giving programming advice, but here is a simple FreeBASIC program that incorporates an ASM subroutine that does all the computational work.
https://web.archive.org/web/20230522152 ... rdrev3.bas
https://web.archive.org/web/20230522152 ... rdrev3.bas
- Wed Apr 17, 2024 6:38 pm
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: Learning ASM
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1155
Re: Learning ASM
I think that a knowledge of ASM would be useful in data recovery. In my case, I learned Motorola 6800 assembler at university. For my second data recovery case in the 1980s, I wrote a tiny routine in Data General machine code to scan a Control Data HDD for directory sectors. These days some of my Fr...
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 10:43 pm
- Forum: Donor Drive and Firmware Sourcing
- Topic: Kahuna_5400 ST500LM000
- Replies: 4
- Views: 939
Re: Kahuna_5400 ST500LM000
Would you indulge my curiosity by uploading your LIM2 ROM and some other ROM? ISTR there are a couple of ROM segments at the end of the ROM which are modified during normal operation. Perhaps you could clear those segments?
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 5:46 pm
- Forum: Donor Drive and Firmware Sourcing
- Topic: Kahuna_5400 ST500LM000
- Replies: 4
- Views: 939
Re: Kahuna_5400 ST500LM000
I can see a few LIM1 and LIM2 versions of ST1000LM014 ...
Are you looking for the PCB or firmware? Are you sure your ROM is OK?
Are you looking for the PCB or firmware? Are you sure your ROM is OK?