A question

[Peter_M]

LUCT you should unlock.

[Baraka]

Hi,

With WD 2.5" USB hard drives, when the drive will not initialise is it possible to read the ROM using TTL with WD Marvel? If so, how?

Thanks

[Vlad]

If ROM not corrupted, should work
Connect drive via TTL and click read ROM

[CWRU]

Drive FBLITE 1TB, FW 16.7C, head 2 is bad. Tried to add mod 04 but the size is about 30MB and Dir Editor couldn't find enough free space for it. Took a Dir module from another drive, but the sizes of some modules were wrong....
Is it possible WDMarvel to "defragment" the modules in Dir in order to add big modules like 04?

[Vlad]

No, only manually move modules in DIR editor...

[CWRU]

No, only manually move modules in DIR editor...

OK. So I have to write a PHP script to do the job...

[Vlad]

Check before, have the SA enough size to hold all modules or no
To avoid surprise)

[CWRU]

Check before, have the SA enough size to hold all modules or no
To avoid surprise)

I did it. There are two big free spaces of about 20MB each...

[CWRU]

The solution came out to be very simple . Just increased the sizes of all regions...

[Beamg]

Hi,

I've ran some selfscan scripts on a few newer drives and I always end up with a full defect head list.
It's always from the tests 34D1 & 34D2.

I tried the test on 4 different drives. I know the heads are not damaged on any of the drives.
However, they do have some bad sectors.

Models I tried which all produce a full head defect list error with selfscan test 34D1 & 34D2:
WD5000LPCX-60VHAT0
WD10JPVX-08JC3T5
WD10JPVX-22JC3T0
WD40EFRX-68WT0N0

So, if there's anyone out there who has knowledge of this issue, I would appreciate some help.

I tried some selfscan tests on the older WD7500BPVT 750GB models and the scripts seem to work.

Thanks.