[Eug-lug] Damaged hard drive

[Quentin Hartman]

On 5/18/07, Quentin Hartman <qhartman at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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.



That is a SATA model, but since it's a "transition era" SATA drive, I'd
wager the mechanicals are the same.

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.
> > >>
> > >> --
> > >> "ANSI C says access to the padding fields of a struct is undefined.
> > >> ANSI C also says that struct assignment is a memcpy. Therefore struct
> > >> assignment in ANSI C is a violation of ANSI C..."
> > >>                                    - Alan Cox
> > >> _______________________________________________
> > >> EUGLUG mailing list
> > >> euglug at euglug.org
> > >> http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
> > >>
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > _______________________________________________
> > > EUGLUG mailing list
> > > euglug at euglug.org
> > > http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
> > >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > EUGLUG mailing list
> > euglug at euglug.org
> > http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
> >
>
>
>
> --
> -Regards-
>
> -Quentin Hartman-




-- =

-Regards-

-Quentin Hartman-
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://euglug.org/pipermail/euglug/attachments/20070518/58a39475/attac=
hment.htm