[OT] Troubleshooting ATA Drives..

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People,

I clearly read below where David requested that you "drop me a note
off-list".

It is these very off-topic threads that break out that are causing Jay and
the moderators grief.

Please police yourselves better.

On Wed, 9 Mar 2005, der Mouse wrote:

> > Any one with experience on doing electrical troubleshooting on
> > (Maxtor) ATA Drives, please drop me a note off-list.  I just had a PS
> > failure and it "took-out" a drive with some fairly critical data.  I
> > believe the board (rather than the platter itself) took the bullet,
> > and I want to explore options before sending the drive out for $6K+
> > in repair costs.
>
> Well, one option might be to try to find an identical drive and swap
> boards between then.  In my (admittedly rather limited) experience,
> swapping logic boards is just a matter of taking a few screws out and
> making sure the boards get lined up correctly.  But you need an
> identical drive to swap with.  If the drive is still available, getting
> another identical one is likely to run way less than $6K and may well
> be worth doing against the chance it'll work.
>
> You will almost certainly need a torx of the right size, which
> probably means a decent set of torxes; every drive I've looked at with
> an eye to mechanical disassembly has been held together with torxes.
>
> For that matter, I'm in a similar situation: I have a Maxtor which
> reports itself as having 0 heads, 0 sectors/track, and 0 cylinders; if
> I had an identical drive, I'd try swapping boards, but I don't.
>
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