Maxtor Athena DSP - Auto Recovery not supported

[Alexandre Silveira]

Dears,

I have a HDD Maxtor Athena, that it recognizes as Maxtor Athena. The family is Athena DSP,

model: 2B020H1
code: WAH21PB0


When run utility "Auto Recovery" in Safe Mode, show the message: "Recovery resources not found by FW: WAG23C7Z.", but already was installed; "Auto_recovery_data_2_2.pcr", but it continue to show this message "Recovery resources not found..."

In the utility Auto Recovery not listed o FW: WAG23C7Z. Please see the screers,


Alexandre

[AJ2008]

WAG23C7Z seems unusual. Usually with WAH21pB0 FW the code changes to WAH21PBZ.

Is there any possibiltiy to repair manually? What errors do you recieve when loading LDR? Have you loaded LDR to alternative PCB?

[GURU]

Hi,

Well

You have "3" versions in fact

1: ROM Default (SAFE MODE WITHOUT RESET) = WAH23C72
2: ROM (SAFE MODE WITH RESET) = WAH21PBZ
3: STANDARD WORKING CODE = WAH21PB0

I would suggest to use the manual method via PC3k and understand how to do it correctly

[steven]

auto recovery... auto do not mean what we want... sometime auto work worst then manual repair... I suggest you to repair it manually. start loader and check module... I think it is simple and not so difficult

[AJ2008]

auto recovery... auto do not mean what we want... sometime auto work worst then manual repair... I suggest you to repair it manually. start loader and check module... I think it is simple and not so difficult

Agreed