On Fri, 18 May 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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
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