On Sun, 07 Sep 2003 13:50:03 -0700, Timothy Virkkala wrote: >And, at what was to be the final moment, reinstalling a hard drive, I >finally did the dread mistake: I broke a pin on the SCSI hard drive, >my main >one. (Had to replace it with the back-up, noisy Barracuda! Double >Aaaagh.) > >So, is there any way to repair this? > >I have plenty of old SCSI drives that I could sacrifice to the >cause. Does >it need to be identical to the broken drive? >
Almost certainly has to be identical. OTOH, if you can do soldering work, it might be possible to replace the connector. It MIGHT even be possible to extract and replace the broken pin with some sleight-of-hand, be a bit tricky, but probably less so than extracting a 50 pin connector intact. (I assume it's a 50 pin 10th inch center square pin header-type SCSI-I connector. If it's one of the high-density connectors, you're on your own...) Of course, you might end up with a dead controller board, but it seems to me that you'd be no worse off than you are now. If you can't solder, well, you need an identical controller board. ----- Jeffrey J. Nonken http://jnork.nonken.net/ -- PCI-PowerMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Sonnet & PowerLogix Upgrades - start at $169 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> PCI-PowerMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/pci-powermacs.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive:<http://www.mail-archive.com/pci-powermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
