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Fox
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Posted: Mon May 02, 2005 7:25 am    Post subject: Before Maxtor 6YL0... now CALYPSO Reply with quote

I have two HDD MAXTOR DIAMONDMAX PLUS 9 80GB

They worked always fine.

But from one day to another the two HDDs showed the same problem, almost
simultaneously.

Whereas before the BIOS recognized them as MAXTOR 6Y080...., now PC does not
start, and entering the BIOS - with many diffulties - they are recognized as
CALYPSO, whitout any other information.

I tried to use Powermax or Maxblast, but on the primary IDE there is not any
HDD.

The same if I connect the HDD to secondary IDE.

On the same PC I am using other Maxtor HDDs, without problems.

On the WEB I read that many pepole had the same problem, due to the fact
that HDDs lost firmware.

It is possible to restore the firmware on HDDs? Thare is any software to do
it?

Thanks
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John@Smith.com
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Posted: Mon May 02, 2005 7:25 am    Post subject: Re: Before Maxtor 6YL0... now CALYPSO Reply with quote

Have you tried them on another motherboard?
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Fox
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Posted: Wed May 04, 2005 7:25 am    Post subject: Re: Before Maxtor 6YL0... now CALYPSO Reply with quote

Yes, but it is the same.
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John@Smith.com
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Posted: Wed May 04, 2005 7:25 am    Post subject: Re: Before Maxtor 6YL0... now CALYPSO Reply with quote

You know this sounded like a weird problem so I looked it up and a few
people who claim the firmware changed and has similar problems like
you -------the responses say no way could it do that.

And others say you cant flash the firmware from your PC.

Have you tried running the powermax diagnostic program to zero out
your Hard disk from a different PC? Or using FDISK you know DOS
utilities and FIX MBR in the recovery console mode? Maybe even
spinrite. Also try manually putting in the parameters for your HD in
the bios.
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Autumns_Burning



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Posted: Sun Apr 09, 2006 12:45 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

SO I have the same HDD (120GB) and mine has done the same thing...but it started clicking, so I figured it was over-heating/ needed dusting, so I dusted it it and now I have it hooked up externally and it doesn't click like it used to...before it was every other second...now it does it twice over the period of a few minutes, and then it stops...but it still isn't showing up, other than in Device Manager and it shows up THERE as Calypso:(. I thought it may be drivers, but I can't find any Maxtor drivers for this HDD online, and I have no idea where the disk is that came with it:( Any ideas?
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