Archive for: February 11th, 2011

Barracuda drives’ PCB swap

HDD malfunctions are frequently caused by damage to drive controller board. In order to restore access to user data on the drive, you have to install a functional board from another drive of the same family using an identical firmware version. With...

 

Fix hard drive detected as slave only

The problem can be caused by a short circuit on PCB or a spindle controller malfunction. One contact of the Master jumper is connected to the ground circuit, the other is linked through a resistor array to pin 59 of the SH6950 spindle controller...