On 5/18/07, Quentin Hartman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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, [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 > -- -Regards- -Quentin Hartman-
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