Fujitsu Limited has transferred its hard disk drive (HDD) business to Toshiba Corporation on October 1st, 2009. Fujitsu drive initializes itself at power-up as follows:
1. Power-up.
2. Self-diagnostics 1:
– data bus and MPU address test
–...
April 5, 2011 7:28 AM / 4 comments
The service data version recorded to HDA can be found on the drive label. Version number is indicated in its
right lower corner, under the line (see the figure below) and consists of a prefix (3 or 4 characters) and an actual version number...
January 19, 2011 7:12 AM / no comments
Fujitsu HDD repair is characterized by some peculiarities. They include the presence of resident microprocessor code (overlay), a large number of incompatible firmware versions, and differences in the HDA construction and service data structure...
January 19, 2011 6:21 AM / no comments