PC-3000 Forum

HI.

I remember seeing a feature where you could restore the P-List from factory selftest logs, but I cant find the feature, at least in ROYL drives.

Can somebody give me an update on that ?

Hello

We deleted this possibility because it worked not very good.
Now, if you have bad P-list module, we suggest to read it with ignoring reading errors and then fix it in hex editor.
P-list module is very big, but usually has data just at beginning (very small percent of the P-list module is occupied by data). And usually if P-list is damaged (has bad sectors), bad sectors are located on empty space of the module.
When you read module with ignoring reading errors, bad sectors that were not read will be filled by DEAD signature in the dump of module.
So, when you will have performed reading P-list, you should open file that you get and search DEAD signature. It is most probably that it will be located in the empty area (you will see just zeros before and after DEAD) and your goal is to fill DEAD by zeros.
After changing all DEAD by zeros you can check yourself by checking control sum with plugin of hex editor.
And then just rewrite P-list of your HDD by module that you fixed.