[OT] Troubleshooting ATA Drives..

[Geoff Reed]

<Pedant>

  and your post is on topic how?

</Pedant>

At 07:28 AM 3/10/2005, you wrote:

>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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