[Eug-lug] Damaged hard drive

[Quentin Hartman]

Interestingly, I have a WD2500JD-00FYB0 that has bad mechanicals, but I'm
sure the electronics are fine. It's yours if you want it.

On 5/18/07, abrown at peak.org <abrown at peak.org> wrote:
>
> 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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> >> ANSI C also says that struct assignment is a memcpy. Therefore struct
> >> assignment in ANSI C is a violation of ANSI C..."
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-Quentin Hartman-
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