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The file system supports several Volumes containing service information files selectable by their File ID and copy
number. At present the purpose of the following volumes is known:
♦
Volume = 0 – service information on disk surface (Disc Root)
♦
Volume = 3 – service information on disk surface (Sys Disc)
♦
Volume = 4 and 5 – RAM volumes
♦
Volume = 9, Volume = 0x0A – service information in controller ROM
Sector-by-sector reading method is supported for corrupted files. The reading mode (Terminal / ATA(direct) /
ATA(indirect)) is specified in the utility status dialog. It supports access to the System Files both via the terminal and
via ATA, in the latter case the utility allows work with files even if the drive FW contains no internal commands for
operations with these objects.
You can right-click the list of files to initiate scanning for available FID:
Fig. 7.7
Fig. 7.8
When you select the command to scan the list, the utility displays a dialog suggesting to define the volume and File ID
range for scanning as well as the list of File ID to skip (when information about certain FW files is requested, a LED:
xxxx exception may occur resulting in firmware freeze unwanted during automatic scanning). The list of files to skip
will be saved to the requested ini file.
Besides, modern firmware versions (in particular, FW of Barracuda LP Green drives) are able to output to terminal the
list of available files after the "T>y" command. Sample list returned in response to the command:
Here FD stands for File Descriptor. FD format is xxYxxZZZ, where Y = Volume, ZZZ = File ID.
You can also print the list of Sys Files in the dialog to the utility log and use the Sys LBA to identify the corresponding
file it belongs to. The opportunity allows quick recognition of damaged files based on the report about recent RW
commands executed by the drive. For details on the diagnostics method please see the
section 5.6, Diagnostics using
the list of 32 recent RW commands.
F3 T>y
File Vol FD Location Size Cylinder Hd Sector
---- --- -------- ------------ -------- -------- -- ------
0000 000 fd000000 0000000246df 0000000c 0002a4ab 00 00001f
0001 000 fc001203 00000002900f 00000009 0002a4bd 00 00026f
0002 000 fc002204 000000029020 00000003 0002a4bd 00 000280
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