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Yes, I've tried various LBA from all throughout the drive to no avail. Reading stops right around the 257,000 LBA mark. It's puzzling! I think I picked some difficult test cases to start off with, at least I hope that's what's going on... ;-D Trial by fire, perhaps.

Sorry -- can't edit so I have to reply again :p So I fixed 36... I think. Read Composite, Read Copy 1, compared to a like drive and copied over header data. Computed checksum, verified, wrote back to drive. Now it shows OK across the board. However drive still only allows very early LBA...

Just an update, it looks like module 36 on this drive is throwing errors. I tried offsetting it after reading, then writing it back to a new address, and it now shows: Read "OK", The head "Err", Check "Err" I'm totally out of my depth here :LOL:

So get this -- I have another one of these now in hand, similar symptoms. Slightly different model: WD10EAVS-32D7B1. This one I'm able to provoke to ID however, by disabling H3 in ROM (heads map normally is 2,3,4,5,6,7 - so it's revised to 2,4,5,6,7 and IDs). However, I can only read LBAs...

Yeah I'll probably give that a shot... thanks for the advice on it pclab! I'm practicing on all abandoned drives from years past... figure I'll give it a solid few months before I try anything at all significant on client stuff. :-)

No, I haven't, and in fact that's typically where I think I'm going to draw the line on recoveries (anything requiring disassembly). It's okay, all of the firmware stuff is all practice at the moment anyway :-) Thanks, I do very much appreciate the reply!

Hey guys, All right, total newbie here to firmware work, but I've got the first one I'm experimenting with that I think I need help with. This drive spins up, "clicks" three times, spins down. Cannot do RAM headmap, load LDR from similar drive, or anything of the sort. I have a near match...

Hey all, Longtime lurker, first time poster. For about ~10 years I've been running a sub-business of my tech consulting firm in Louisville, KY as a data recovery business... doing everything below the level of drive repair procedures (so basically no firmware, cleanroom, etc. work, but anything...