Short points for ST5000DM000

[msurgeon]

Would greatly appreciate short points on PCB 100721570 as per attached

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Fortunately, just found answer on current blog post!

[Filipp_TS]

Hello

Take a look please this article:
http://ts.acelab.eu.com/index.php?/ ... -f3-drives
Also you can contact Technical support department regarding this and other cases.

[cuumaytinh]

Great !

[Sam A]

Article is gone. Please re-post

[LarrySabo]

Sam, it's in the Blog: http://blog.acelab.eu.com/where-and ... rives.html

... unless it's a different article.

[Sam A]

Thanks Larry. I just realized the original link pointed to the general shorting guide for F3 drives. I was hoping for a technique specific for this PCB/drive...I wasn't making any progress using the general guide.

[LarrySabo]

I suspected that was the case. Sorry I couldn't help.

[Sam A]

That's OK Larry... it was nice to hear from you at least

[msurgeon]

Enlarge picture at top; short points are 6th and 7th from the top on the left row. It's been a while since I did this but If not 6th and 7th, then 8th and 9th. You'll hear clicking when you hit the right points.

[LarrySabo]

... or power the unmounted PCB and measure the voltage to ground of the obvious trace pair you think is the read/write channel. The read channel traces will have 0v and the write channel traces will have a small bias voltage, e.g., ca .5v.