Non-responsive hard drive - help?

[Pete Turnbull]

On Oct 3 2005, 13:28, Mark Tapley wrote:

> 	Broken component is the hard drive from a La Cie Tsunami
> external enclosure. Drive is a Quantum Prodrive LPS, 240 MB capacity,

> 1) Is the HA13476 expected to be pretty warm in use?
>
> 2) What is an HA13476? Is it unobtanium

Don't know...

> 3) Anyone have a matching drive that I could get at reasonably low
> cost to try exchanging controller boards?

...and too far away...

> 4) Any suggestions for further trouble-shooting and/or repairing?

...but I can offer some possible comfort, in that I have swapped boards
between Quantum Prodrive LPSs of that sort of size successfully, even
when the drives participating in the swap have not been the same size
as each other.  Might need to swap the ROM as well, but the ones I've
seen are all socketed.

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Pete						Peter Turnbull
						Network Manager
						University of York