[Eug-lug] Damaged hard drive

[abrown at peak.org]

In case it's not clear, what I will offer in trade is *not*
the broken one.  I will buy you a new drive of equal or greater
capacity, equal or greater performance.  And I can throw in
some $$ as well.  Or another hard drive if you prefer.  Just
to sweeten the deal.
--
Allen

> Oops!  My bad.  It's not an IBM.  Its a WD2500 Cavaliar.
> WD2500JB-00EVA0 dated 16 Dec 2003.
> Anybody have one of those I can trade?
> --
> Allen
>
>> I don't have a duplicate.  I wonder how closely they have to match...
>>
>> Anybody have a 250GB IBM?  I'm willing to trade it
>> for something bigger if you are interested.  Or SATA if you
>> prefer.  Let me know what you want and I will buy it for you.
>> --
>> Allen
>>
>>> On Fri, 18 May 2007, abrown at peak.org wrote:
>>>
>>>> I damaged my hard drive. The BIOS intermittently recognizes it.
>>>> Not sure what happened.  Best I can figure I must have zapped
>>>> it with static.
>>>>
>>>> Sometimes static will weaken transistors without completely
>>>> killing them.  That would be consistent with the symptoms.
>>>> The ATA pins are working, just not at spec.  And not well
>>>> enough for the computer to read the drive.
>>>>
>>>> Do any of you know who can read a damaged drive?  If my guess
>>>> is right, this will be more than playing with software.  It
>>>> will require some hardware smarts.
>>>>
>>>> I have reconstructed quite a bit from other computers and hard
>>>> drives.  But there are a lot of things I didn't have backed up.
>>>
>>> If you have another of the same exact model of hard drive, sometimes
>>> you
>>> can swap the controller board.  Just make sure you back up that drive
>>> first in case you have some other problem that eats controller boards.
>>>
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