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, [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 > _______________________________________________ > EUGLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug > _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
