I'm eager to give it a try. Would you like a 250GB SATA Hitachi in exchange? Used for just a few hours. Let's make arrangements off list. -- Allen
> 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- > > > > > -- > -Regards- > > -Quentin Hartman- > _______________________________________________ > EUGLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug > _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
