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Model : TOSHIBA MK5061GSY
Serial : 61ILD038B
Firmware : MC102E0
Capacity : 465.76 GB (976 773 168)

toshiba mk5061GSY - no terminal

I have patient and donor - neither one will respond in terminal.

Normally when the terminal is connected and power is OFF then the RxD light on the PC-USB Terminal adapter is solid yellow.
This indicates that the drive is not 'driving a signal on the transmit pic (from drive to PC).

When the drive is powered on the RxD light goes OFF then blinks 1 time.

This is normal because the laptop drive is providing a voltage on the RxD line.

I tested this with a 3256GSY , and that is how it functions.

My Patient and good donor mk5061GSY do not do this.

After power on the RxD light stays Solid yellow.
I have traced out the pins and the connections are good all the way to the CPU.

What could be going on?
Is the 5061GSY looking to receive some instruction from the pc to enable to com port?

With the3256GSY i can remove the SATA, power up, and terminal responds wo CR with '>'.

Donor works fine. I can surface test, but terminal is not responding and cant backup resources.
Techno On............................... : Ok

Zone table.............................. : Zone table read error; unexpected error: Failed to connect with HDDs COM interface.
Check PC USB Terminal connection,
PC-2 adapter jumper settings,
COM port selection by this utility.

G-List reading error.................... : G-List read error; unexpected error: Failed to connect with HDDs COM interface.
Check PC USB Terminal connection,
PC-2 adapter jumper settings,
COM port selection by this utility.

CP Avalable............................. : 33,34,44,56,92,95,98,9A,9B,9C,A2,A5,A7,A8,A9,AA,AD,AE,AF,B1,B3,B5,B6,BB,BD,C1,C4,C5,C6,C7,C8,C9,CB,CD,D0,D1,D4,D6,D7,D8,D9,DA,DB,DD,E0,E1,E2,E3,F0,F1,F2,F4,F5

Logical scan
****************************************************************
Initial LBA............................. : 0
Final LBA............................... : 976 773 167
Data exchange mode...................... : UDMA66
Surface verification.................... : Yes
Random read............................. : No
Writing................................. : No
Reading................................. : No
HDD cache RAM test...................... : No
Scan direction.......................... : Forward
Pass count.............................. : 1
Save defects............................ : No
Don`t search sector where error occured. : No
HDD timeout............................. : 200 ms.
One LBA commands timeout................ : 30 ms.
****************************************************************

Pass.................................... : 1

Test.................................... : Surface verification
Status.................................. : Skip

Test execution has been interrupted

Duration................................ : 12:00:10 AM

HDD resources backup
Reading CP
Into folder............................. : <HDD Profile>\Data\SABackup\CP
CP 33................................... : CP Reading error; unexpected error: Failed to connect with HDDs COM interface.
Check PC USB Terminal connection,
PC-2 adapter jumper settings,
COM port selection by this utility.
CP 34................................... : CP Reading error; unexpected error: Failed to connect with HDDs COM interface.
Check PC USB Terminal connection,
PC-2 adapter jumper settings,
COM port selection by this utility.

Make sure PC USB Terminal is connected directly to your motherboard ports on PCs back side. Using front ports can cause what you described above.
The other thing you can try is trying some other USB port. You can also try to remove current USB Terminal drivers from your system and install their newer version(update box has drives within USB Terminal folder).

Now I have another one of this model that wont talk to the terminal.

The yellow rxd light is on solid like its not powered up.

this is the exact problem I had with the other one - I have 3 of these that wont talk to the terminal

Model : TOSHIBA MK3256GSY
Serial : X9MST04AT
Firmware : LH013A3
Capacity : 298.09 GB

hello everyone,
I have recived 3 toshiba TOSHIBA MK5061GSY model 500gb hdd.one of them is clicking so i purchase same identical donor drive but when i attached it to terminal it gives error abt pc2 adaptor and not reading cp.so pls anybody has idea abt this ?

Model : TOSHIBA MK5061GSY
Serial : 72PFP5FTT
Firmware : MC102E2
Capacity : 465.76 GB (976 773 168)

Terminal :

Techno On............................... : Ok

Zone table.............................. : Zone table read error; unexpected error: Failed to connect with HDDs COM interface.
Check PC USB Terminal connection,
PC-2 adapter jumper settings,
COM port selection by this utility.

G-List reading error.................... : G-List read error; unexpected error: Failed to connect with HDDs COM interface.
Check PC USB Terminal connection,
PC-2 adapter jumper settings,
COM port selection by this utility.

CP Avalable............................. : 33,34,44,56,92,95,98,9A,9B,9C,A2,A5,A7,A8,A9,AA,AD,AE,AF,B1,B3,B5,B6,BB,BD,C1,C4,C5,C6,C7,C8,C9,CB,CD,D0,D1,D4,D6,D7,D8,D9,DA,DB,DD,E0,E1,E2,E3,F0,F1,F2,F4,F5

i have tried other model toshiba hdd from another family all works.

Got the same but with old version 5.2.6 it work fine. So I think is a software bug.
Try to install an older version for these cases.

Do you use techno off/on mode?

Dima wrote:Do you use techno off/on mode?

yes i tried both.drive shows id normally but data area is not accesible so to clear glist or translater we need pc 2 jumper support but cant help.
i dont tried older ver yet.but newer should work.