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Topic: Have you successfully recovered a dead hard drive? |
marceljack
Replies: 4
Views: 18880
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Forum: General chat Posted: Tue May 23, 2006 9:08 pm Subject: Re: Have you successfully recovered a dead hard drive? |
And how did you do it?Maxtor Diamondmax Plus 9 (motor control IC burnt) : I swapped board from another disk of the same series with same hardware but different firmware. So I had also to remove the sm ... |
Topic: 6E040L0 DEFECTIVE |
marceljack
Replies: 2
Views: 12113
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Forum: More stories Posted: Tue May 23, 2006 7:49 pm Subject: Re: 6E040L0 DEFECTIVE |
All 6E040L0 hard drives are defective so don't use them and if you have one that works, replace it immediately no matter what!
I would personally like to watch (from a distance) a nuclear bomb dest ... |
Topic: need board for DiamondMax Plus 9 6Y060L0420401 |
marceljack
Replies: 2
Views: 13651
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Forum: Hard drives wanted Posted: Mon May 22, 2006 7:22 pm Subject: board |
www.softcom.com.my
Try here... :shock:Thanks. I solved mu problem with the help of Ranikolahdd. |
Topic: Compatibility rules for replacing boards on Maxtor HDDs |
marceljack
Replies: 9
Views: 33246
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Forum: Hard drives wanted Posted: Sun May 21, 2006 2:56 pm Subject: Re: re Flash |
no it does not contain bad sector information and it is needed only for starting the hdd it has a small part of firmware not assential
there si a whay to read it I assume that there is a way to read ... |
Topic: Compatibility rules for replacing boards on Maxtor HDDs |
marceljack
Replies: 9
Views: 33246
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Forum: Hard drives wanted Posted: Sat May 20, 2006 3:38 pm Subject: Thanks |
OK d2XXXX OR D6 XXXXXThanks, it's clear now.
put little rom chip from d2xxx on e4xxx board and the magic will startThanks, I will give it a try...
I see in the ST documentation that this chip (mar ... |
Topic: Compatibility rules for replacing boards on Maxtor HDDs |
marceljack
Replies: 9
Views: 33246
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Forum: Hard drives wanted Posted: Fri May 19, 2006 9:58 pm Subject: Re: re |
i am an expert in that field, maxtors are mine favorites.Okay.
U can use F4FYa on all BWo models and D2 or D6 boards on Vwo.
End of storyThe disk with dead board has Code YAR41VW0 and its board is m ... |
Topic: Wanted: Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9 board w/ YAR41VW0 firmware |
marceljack
Replies: 7
Views: 27677
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Forum: Hard drives wanted Posted: Fri May 19, 2006 9:07 pm Subject: Firmware |
Does the firmware version have to match exactly?
Apparently there are 2 different firmwares for the 60GB/platter drives:
YAR41VW0 and YAR41BV0. Can I use a controller board with YAR41BV0 on my drive ... |
Topic: Compatibility rules for replacing boards on Maxtor HDDs |
marceljack
Replies: 9
Views: 33246
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Forum: Hard drives wanted Posted: Fri May 19, 2006 7:12 pm Subject: Re: not good |
this is not right
it is much easer
there are onlye few board for eachmodel (speaking with maxtors)
for qvantum it is even ease only as has 2 alll the others are the sameThis is the answer given in ... |
Topic: Maxtor Diamondmax 16 60gb circuit board needed badly. |
marceljack
Replies: 4
Views: 18636
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Forum: Hard drives wanted Posted: Tue May 16, 2006 8:04 pm Subject: Re: firmware code is RAMC1TU0 |
The firmware code is RAMC1TU0. Thanks for letting me know what I need to supply. I'm new at this dead drive stuff. Thanks again.This is the compatibility rule that Maxtor support indicated me when ... |
Topic: Worked for Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9 120GB |
marceljack
Replies: 5
Views: 22742
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Forum: More stories Posted: Tue May 16, 2006 7:55 pm Subject: Re: Worked for Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9 120GB |
Searched internet for firmware code (see below), took a few weeks, but found someone with a dead platter.
$20 USD for shipping & handling (he didn't charge for the dead drive itself) and an ext ... |
Topic: Compatibility rules for replacing boards on Maxtor HDDs |
marceljack
Replies: 9
Views: 33246
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Forum: Hard drives wanted Posted: Tue May 16, 2006 7:41 pm Subject: Compatibility rules for replacing boards on Maxtor HDDs |
Please find below the compatibility rules to follow to replace a damaged board on a Maxtor drive with a board coming from another drive of the same series.
To replace the circuit board on all Quant ... |
Topic: need board for DiamondMax Plus 9 6Y060L0420401 |
marceljack
Replies: 2
Views: 13651
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Forum: Hard drives wanted Posted: Tue May 16, 2006 7:35 pm Subject: need board for DiamondMax Plus 9 6Y060L0420401 |
I need to replace the board of my 60GB drive (motor control chip burnt, which seems very frequent).
According to Maxtor support, the replacement board does not need to come from a disk with the same ... |
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