In case it's not clear, what I will offer in trade is *not* the broken one. I will buy you a new drive of equal or greater capacity, equal or greater performance. And I can throw in some $$ as well. Or another hard drive if you prefer. Just to sweeten the deal. -- Allen
> 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 > _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
