You mean reprogram the firmware. Don't think wdc have new ones, so you are SOL.
Get the full model number written on your drive (it's not just WD800) and have a look on
PM2 is a power management jumper.
-- Adrian C
Hello... I've been stumped about a method to clear the BIOS on my HDD to the correct setting. I don't know how it happened, but somehow my WD800 drive tries to boot, and clatters, then ID's as a WD600 and of course that stops the bootup. I switched the HDD into another system, and the mis-ID remains the same. Something has gone awry in the BIOS. Looking at the jumper bus, I noticed a mysterious jumper near the slave/master pins, called PM2. I'm wondering if this is a programming mode, and maybe someone knows if there is a program that initializes this drive as well.
In have nothing to lose at this point. I'd appreciate some ideas.
Les
The disk is shot.
I've seen this on other disks when they go really bad. The WD600 and WD800 most likely have the same controller and it gets the type from the media. When it can't read the media, it falls back to the default in the firmware, which appears to be WD600 in your case.
The clatter you hear is the seeks it tries to get at the data.
Thomas
If I had to guess I'd say you have a drive electronics failure. Good luck at fixing this.. About the only possible solution to this would to be to find another hdd identical to yours manufactured about the same time and swap the logic borads. That might work, but I wouldn't bet any money on it. It worked in the old days, but I get the feeling that HDDs may have changed some since then.
By the way if you really need the data send it out ot a recovery house. They can get it back for you.. If not, take the hdd apart and get the really strong rare earth magnet out of it. Throw the rest away or make some kind of modern art out it.
Mike
Good luck to you,
Mike
The data recovery houses are VERY expensive. The last time the company sent a 60GB laptop drive to OnTrack, the price was close to $2000, plus $5 a platter formedia (CD/DVD) the recovered data was put on.
For personal use, add a SATA controller card and a large drive to an old computer and use it for over-the-network backups.
John
On Mon, 16 Feb 2009 07:46:50 -0800, "les" put finger to keyboard and composed:
How to enable and disable PM2 (power management) on WD Serial ATA hard drives:
Try Western Digital's Data Lifeguard Tools:
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