Tag Archives: HDD

PC-3000 for HDD. How to check system heads manually on WD drives.

Posted on 02/03/2016 by ACELab team

The procedure is applicable both for WD Marvell and WD Caviar architecture drives. When we recover Service Area modules we need to be sure that system heads are able to write modules in SA without errors. Make sure that you … Continue reading →

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PC-3000 for HDD. Basic HDD diagnostics procedure

Posted on 01/29/2016 by ACELab team

Sometimes DR specialists start examining the drive from the wrong point that leads to unnecessary wasting of time or even to the situation when the drive becomes unrecoverable. We want to present to you our recommended procedure of basic examining … Continue reading →

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PC-3000 for HDD. Building ROM image from SA data on WD Marvell drives with external ROM

Posted on 01/26/2016 by ACELab team

The method can be used to recover original ROM image and then write it into donor PCB when original PCB was damaged, lost, or original ROM was lost. The idea is to rewrite the compatible donor ROM image to donor … Continue reading →

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PC-3000 for HDD. Building ROM image from SA data on WD Marvell drives with internal ROM using version 6.X

Posted on 01/21/2016 by ACELab team

The method can be used to recover original ROM image and then write it into donor PCB when original PCB was damaged, lost, or original ROM was lost in PC-3000 version 6.0 and later. The “Building ROM image from SA … Continue reading →

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PC-3000 for HDD. Soldering of SATA connector to SAMSUNG SPINPOINT USB PCB

Posted on 12/25/2015 by ACELab team

We get many questions from our customers about how to determine the points where to solder SATA connector on SAMSUNG Spinpoint USB drive. Here is the easiest method. There are two types of USB PCBs: 1. With separate SATA-USB bridge;

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PC-3000 HDD. How to solder a SATA-adapter to the USB Western Digital drive

Posted on 12/02/2015 by ACELab team

As you know Western Digital drives have a SATA or an USB interface (2.0 or 3.0). For work with the USB drives better to connect them to PC-3000 via SATA, ’cause USB connection have a restrictions and a lot of … Continue reading →

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PC-3000 for HDD. Where and how to short Seagate F3 drives

Posted on 11/20/2015 by ACELab team

As you may know, first step of diagnostics on Seagate drives is to check terminal output after power on and check is drive able to read system files. But there a lot of firmware errors when you can’t access terminal … Continue reading →

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PC-3000 for HDD. Building ROM image from SA data on WD Marvell drives with internal ROM using version 5.X

Posted on 09/24/2015 by ACELab team

The method can be used to recover original ROM image and then write it into donor PCB when original PCB was damaged, lost, or original ROM was lost. The “Building ROM image from SA data” tool was fully revised in … Continue reading →

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PC-3000 for HDD. Heads stack adaptive parameters(Microjogs) transfer on WD drives

Posted on 08/12/2015 by ACELab team

Sometimes after heads stack replacement the new heads stack works not stable. That occurs because every heads stack has its unique adaptive parameters. Those parameters are stored in module 47 of ROM. The adaptive parameters are more different from one … Continue reading →

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PC-3000 for HDD. RAM Head map editing on WD drives (non-system head case)

Posted on 07/31/2015 by ACELab team

In some cases a drive with one or more malfunctioning heads can finish the initialization process without any visible errors. But when we try to read user area it results in error and no user data can be read. For … Continue reading →

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