PC-3000 HDD

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. How to check what sys file is damaged by Ctrl+X terminal command?

Posted on 01/19/2016 by ACELab team

There is quite useful T>[Ctrl+X] terminal command on Seagate F3 drives which show last executed commands by the drive. From its output we can define non-readed LBA and sys file which located on that LBA.

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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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PC-3000 for HDD. The HOT SWAP procedure for Western Digital Marvell drives

Posted on 07/14/2015 by ACELab team

The “HOT SWAP” procedure can be used to restore logical access (i.e. an opportunity to read data using Data Extractor) in cases when system heads are inoperable (calibration procedure cannot be successfully completed because a drive is knocking and fails … Continue reading →

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PC-3000 for HDD. How to solve the Slow Responding Problem

Posted on 07/08/2015 by ACELab team

If a WD drive spins up and quickly gets into the ready state, but requires a lot of time to autodetect and fully initialize in the WDC Marvell utility, and if it is read in the Service area modules and … Continue reading →

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