Fun with the WD Spyglass family!

[Fraser Corrance]

Hello all!

A client brought me a WD USB3 that another data recovery company looked at and, in the process, accidentally damaged the PC. The client did not want to wait for them to order a replacement PCB so they brought it into the shop I work at. The PCB with the USB3 fitting on it is part # 2060-800041-003 Rev P1. From what I have seen online, the compatible PCB should be 800022 which I have on a donor drive that is MDL: WD40NPZZ-00PDPT0.

I moved the ROM chip and soldered it to the donor drive's PCB. When I connect it to the PC3000 the drive spins up and, based on the status registers, appears to come ready but the family does not appear to be supported. From what I found online it looks like the patient drive is from the Spyglass family. 

Dose anybody have any have any recomendation about how to get access to this drive using either the DDI4 or PC3000???

Any help would be greatly appreciated. :-)

Fraser Corrance

Progressive Tech

[Fraser Corrance]

Oops,...I forgot to mention that the patient drive's model number is WD40NMZW-11GX6S1.

Please let me know if there is any additional info that is needed. 

Thanks again. 

Fraser Corrance

Progressive Tech

[t...@desertdatarecovery.com]

These drives are a PITA. The family is not supported by PC3000 yet, but you can use another family to load up the Utility. I normally use Pebbleb. However these drives are SED drives which complicates anything you do with them. Soldering the ROM chip onto a SATA board works, but generally they are extremely hard to find (or very expensive). Also the boards are very sensitive indeed and soldering a new ROM to them can occasionally kill the board (reported on HDDGuru).  I usually solder a SATA connector to the USB board. This also gets around the encryption not being supported yet in PC3000.

 

These drives also have a loader selection issue. Detailed here.

 

http://blog.acelaboratory.com/pc-3000-for-hdd-how-to-handle-vsc-err-inv-func-code-req-error-in-wd-drives.html

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[Fraser Corrance]

Hi Tim,

Thanks for the tip! I will give this a try and see how it works out. I have read through it and it looks easy enough to follow even for a noob like me. ;-)

By chance, you wouldn't happen to have a copy of ROM firmware 0001004V that you would be willing to share? I am looking online but pickings are slim for this family. :-(

Thanks. 

Fraser Corrance

Progressive Tech

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[Fraser Corrance]

Hello again Tim,

I managed to find a copy of the firmware on the HDDSurgery site that worked to get me access to the SA using the steps in the Ace Labs blog post you shared with me. 

Thanks again for the help!

Fraser Corrance

Progressive Tech

[t...@desertdatarecovery.com]

Well done. Sorry I also meant to have a look for the FW for you but didn’t get a chance.

 

 

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