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