On Fri, 26 Aug 2005, Mark Shuford wrote:
Get the PC board off the new drive and put it on the broken one.
I've fixed a couple of drives like this in the past.
I've assumed (without any real data) that the clicking was
due to breaking of the wires on the ribbon cable to the
heads from the flexing. I didn't think that electronics
would die.
Do disks die from the electronics rather than mechanical
problems?
Joe
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