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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 Flash. Compact Flash recovery. SM2234H

Posted on 11/04/2015 by ACELab team

Compact Flash cards – are the most fastest memory cards in the market. The main secret of CF – is a very powerful controller, which has direct access to several physical memory chips, which are placed on the CF PCB. The architecture of … Continue reading →

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PC-3000. Database. Problem with the folders

Posted on 10/30/2015 by ACELab team

Sometimes PC-3000 database can get a problem with the folders location. One or more folders from the root are moved to the other place. For example on this screenshot you can see that HDD profile folders are moved in to … Continue reading →

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PC-3000 DE. Data Extractor RAID Edition. How to build RAID array with virtual machines in VMFS volume

Posted on 10/29/2015 by ACELab team

Using Data Extractor RAID Edition, we are able to identify special RAID configurations and extract data from virtual machines on RAID arrays. Data Extractor RAID Edition supports SPECIAL-VMFS level for manipulations with VMFS spanned across multiple disks These virtual machines … Continue reading →

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PC-3000 Flash. Circuit Board adapter and TSOP-48 memory chips

Posted on 10/09/2015 by ACELab team

PC-3000 Circuit Board adapter is a really good and useful thing. First of all with the help of this adapter you can read the data from monolithic devices like mSD, SD, xD, MS and UFD. But at the same time, … 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 Flash. Block rotation in Phison PS2251-03

Posted on 08/24/2015 by ACELab team

Block rotation – it’s a special operation which is typical for some of Phison, noname, Phison-clone and Sandisk controllers. Basically – it’s some kind of operations where inside block, one group of pages are always rotated. Controller of Flash drive … 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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PC-3000 Flash. How to unsolder TSOP-48\56 memory chips

Posted on 07/22/2015 by ACELab team

In this article we will try to describe the optimal way for NAND memory chip unsoldering in TSOP-48 or TSOP-56 package. Before you will start the whole procedure of unsoldering, you must be sure that you have all required tools, … Continue reading →

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