At 4:44 PM -0800 2/23/2011, smac0031 wrote:
SW Michigan got hit by a snow and freezing rainstorm Sunday. My
power went out and the next afternoon when it came back on my DA G4
would do nothing when you press the power button.
First of all both HDs both Seagate Barracuda 7200 ATA Ultra's are
dead. I tested both of them on a firewire case. When powered up and
you hold them to your ear I can hear a very faint clicking, much
fainter than on normal power up.
[etc]
Wow! Sounds like you took a big hit. :(
Make sure your surge protectors are still good condition, as most die
after a few big hits.
FWIW, I'm the paranoid type. During big storms, I shutdown my gear
and hit the main off switch on my power strip chain. (don't unplug -
that leaves things ungrounded!)
I found a seller on eBay that sells circuit boards for these things.
It looks like you need to match the
batch numbers on the big chips to my drive and have a torx
screwdriver and you can swap out the circuit board and copy the data
onto another drive.
Does anyone have experience with this? Is there any soldering involved?
I've done it a couple of times. No soldering on the drives I did,
just some tiny connectors. YMMV (this probably varies by drive
manufacturer).
I've used CCC to copy drives before and I have another program that
I have used before. I don't think copying the drive will be a
problem. The seller wants $39 for these circuit boards.
You don't have up to date backups?
currently copying my iTunes files to a drive in this dualie. This is
slow. The dualie only has one good usb port and the keyboard is
plugged into, so this little usb pocket drive is plugged into the
second port on the keyboard. According to the progress bar this has
another 13 hours to go. I started yesterday morning. It said 31
hours when I started. I thought usb was faster than that, we are
talking 80GB here.
Built-in USB 1.1 (12 Mbps) vs USB 2.0 (480 Mbps).
I still have 3 to the dump G4's. I was thinking about swapping out
the power supply from one of them to test the DA to see if it is
completely dead. I have a couple of questions. First, the DA has a
133mhz MB and I am not sure about the other G4's, I know they came
in both 100 and 133 flavors. Do they require different power
supplies or are they swappable?
The GigE and DA use the same basic power supply. Not sure what the
other flavor G4s use.
<http://atxg4.com/>
Second, how involved is swapping the power supply?
Quite easy, actually. Google for directions; sites like macfixit
probably have 'em step by step.
- Dan.
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