1600AAJS-75B4A0 Pinnacle SA issues

[paramagnetic]

So I have a pinnacle that is behaving different then any I have personally seen before.

It powers up, make normal sounds but stays busy.


after ~3 minutes, similar to the Sadle G6 family, it will read ERR ABRT.


Here is where it gets interesting to me.


I have a perfect matching donor, using LDR file I can get into normal mode, but it will read "No SA copy available"

hardware modules check reads modules, but says there is a checksum issue with all modules except for 01.

If i try to do SA structure test all modules fail to read.

if I attempt to open any single module to view it in modules directory, it will not open.

So I did a "module search" using both methods gives me the same results, it finds the entire SA, and I can read each module and headers are in correct place, etc.


If I then select "use this dir in modules directory" option (forgot the exact syntax on that option) I can now do SA structure test and all modules pass.

So my question is, what is my next step here? Should I rewrite the found modules back to the drive?


Thanks!

[paramagnetic]

update: wrote incompatible ROM to patient board, so drive now comes DRDY DRSC, but no ID (as expected)

forcing normal mode, I can click ... and it will populate SPT as 1311, but I still have same exact issues when reading SA.

[300ddr]

not 100% sure it's the right next step, but did you try "writing to hdd" that new 01 module to the drive (rather than just using it "in utility" to check mods?)

[AJ2008]

Mod #11 was OK? Did you check content of #32 and of SMART also?