WD2500JB - Problem with Translator

[DR_Ireland]

Hello everybody.

I have WCD WD2500JB-00REA0 drive with broken module 33 (Translator). Both copies are 'red'. I ran SA Surface scan and it found several bad sectors but the worst of all is that there is a Bad Sector under Translator module.
When I tried to rewrete module 33 from donor drive I am getting errors like this one:
Physical write error C/H/S: -11/0/384 Techno CMD sending error Drive is not ready
Is there any way to re-allocate that Bad Sector and regenerate translator?

[Vadim]

This is very strange situation. Are you sure do two modules of translator damage only? Is everything else OK? Do you try to recalculate translator with use P-LIST only? If it not help then we have just one way for get data from this drive. It is HOT-SWAP method. For this you should find the same drive WD2500JB-xxRExx, where x - is not important symbols.

Steps of HOT-SWAP:
1. back up all resource from donor drive (ROM, Modules, Tracks)
2. make hot-swap
3. read SA from patient HDD and read 31h, 32h modules (Translator)
4. write 31h, 32h modules into SA of donor HDD
5. make hot-swap again
6. get data of user
7. restore native modules of translator of donor drive.