Samsung HS082H8

[Hddex]

Good day everyone,

This is a drive from the original macbook air. It is a small HDD that attaches via a ribbon cable to the macbook. I was able to find an adapter to connect it to SATA via PC-3000 Portable. We were able to see drive information but does give an error in data extractor. No clicking

Please see *attached* and any help will be appreciated

[Hddex]

We were able to use the PC-3000 Express on this drive with the adapter. Here is the response I got for why this does not work with PC-3000 Portable but should with PC-3000 Express

"This drive is based on IDE protocol with ZIF interface.
The main idea is that Portable III is based on the most updated and the most functional CPU that you can get. It contains internal SATA, USB and PCIe controllers, which also help us to deal with SAS, NVMe, AHCI and PCIe drives. But the problem is that the native PATA controllers are not using in electronics anymore since ~2011. It means that our platform cant send native PATA commands to native PATA drives with a capacity from 1GB to approx. 120GB.

We still can use Data Extractor with all old PATA drives, but we can't send them native PATA commands because there is no native PATA inside the CPU. So, what can be done in this case? PC-3000 Express and UDMA are still the best tools for classic ATA drives, they are based on a time-trusted PATA platform, which supports both types of drives - SATA and PATA.

Native PATA HDDs are pretty old - they do not produce for the last 12 years, that's why it's not a big issue that Portable III can't communicate with the old Quantum and Maxtor/WD HDDs."

[DataMedics]

You should be able to still image the drive in DE though. It's just the VSCs that can't be transmitted, which are needed by the utility to interact with the firmware.

I'd just launch a DE task, set to PIO reading mode, and image it. The drive looks to have full identity and be otherwise nominally functional.

[Hddex]

Yes, I was able to extract it with a DE task. Thank you