Re: OT: Wanted: Dead WD600 Hard Drive

[greg <frog@intertek.net>]

cool, thanks for the tip

William Underwood wrote:

>frog@intertek.net wrote:
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>>What are you going to do with another dead drive?
>>I have a good 4GB WD you can use to troubleshoot with.
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>If I can find another exact same model drive, I can swap the controller
>boards and hopefully recover the data to a totally separate drive...  
>
>I've done it before with about 75% success rate, with everything from
>MFM to ESDI to RLL to IDE and even a couple SCSI drives.  Various
>brands, from Winchester to Seagate to Conner to Western Digital to IBM
>to Quantum, and a few defunct brand names I don't recall anymore. 
>Doesn't matter too much, as long as the type, brand, and model are the
>same between the two drives.  Try it sometime, provided that you're okay
>with losing the data on both drives and possibly never being able to use
>either one again....
>
>So, thank you for the offer, but the replacement control board has to
>come from another drive with the same model and characteristics.  Which
>means it has to be @18 months old, so it comes from the same general
>manufacturing process.
>
>Your friendly hardware hacker,
>William
>
>P.S. Anyone looking for a working 8088 system?
>WU
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