Hi folks. I'm new to this forum and procedure, but not a noob. I am attempting to get the drive to unbrick; I have gotten the terminal to work properly, and I get commands to work, however, I cannot spindown the drive. I always get the error message. To add insult to injury, at random times, the drive spins down on its own. I have always gotten one of the CC or CE error messages when attempting to spin the drive down and like I said, I have tried boatloads of timings. Here's what I do: I start hyperterm on an XP box and connect the session at the same time I hit the powerswitch on the pSU (independent for hdd & adapter). I wait 5 seconds for ctrl+z, and another 5 secs (T+:.10) for the /2. I then wait 20 seconds (T+.30) and issue Z, however, sometimes the drive will have spun down already ,and sometimes it will not, and I always get a similar message. I try w/ different timings, waiting longer than 20 seconds, same thing. I always get an issue. This drive will not detect in OS, so I believe to be bricked. I have attempted looking thru pages, but with over 60 pages just on one item, it's a lot of information to go through. If anyone has had a similar case and had a successful outcome, can you tell me what you did? Or if I'm doing something wrong, can you point it out to me? Thanks to any and all for your time and assistance. I can provide help on other subjects (other HW, networking, OS, etc), but this one is beyond my usual skill.