Building ROM image from SA data on WD Marvell drives with internal (integrated into Marvell processor) ROM.
For PC-3000 v.6.0 and later.
The "Building ROM image from SA data" tool was fully revised in the PC-3000 6.0 software version so the process is little different from v.5.X versions.
This procedure is not applicable to drives with external ROM IC (U12) as well as to classical WD Caviar architecture drives(non-Marvell).
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 procedure allows to recover full image of original ROM and all ROM modules.
To perform the procedure the SA and at least one system head should be OK. The modules 102, 103, 105, 107 and 109 are necessary to perform the procedure.
In this example we recover WD3200BEVT-11ZCT9 (Denali family) drive with not original PCB. The drive goes READY but doesn't give access to its User Area.
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