That's not quite accurate >> PC 3000 with all its variants, as one of them, is available from
here
I suppose the commercial data and drive recovery tools might have some options, but even Flash Extractor, Arvika's database, Atoll, MRTLab, Rusolut, DFL etc (and probably a bunch more that used to be mechanical only, like SalvationData?) all need a flash map, firmware modules and either chip off board adapter or special interface card to do anything.
I did wonder if maybe the drive has a simple serial interface (most do) where some more details as to what is exactly broken can be gathered (i.e. unable to even talk to the NAND vs. talking to the NAND but some data being corrupted). Maybe it's something dumb like a memory overflow in a SMART table. Or maybe the bootrom can't find the main firmware and stops loading and it can be fixed by simply re-flashing the common firmware, leaving the device specific configuration and runtime data as-is. But it's all guessing at this stage
And I don't think 986box has a serial interface and logic probe or logic analyser on hand to find communication pins
would be a fun exercise tho.