My Reply follows quote. On 07/09/2003 13:50 [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: >Well, have I had troubles this week. One partition and hard drive after >another going down. Reformatting. Backing up stuff. Rescuing items. Aaaagh. > >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? > >I'd hate to lose this drive, my most reliable non-noisy one! > >timo --------- OUCH!
Probably the easiest way would be to exchange circuit boards with an identical drive. Though, I am not sure what info from the ROM on the drive may be written to the disk (some, none?). Barring that, and depending on your soldering skills, you may be able to remove the connector from a "junk" drive and use it to replace the one on your "main" drive. Also, depending on which pin you broke, you may be able to look up the pin-out for the connector and find (one could only hope!) that the pin is "redundant" and the drive may work without it! Ken -- 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
