Whoa. Well. That sucks :( If you're handy with a soldering iron you might be able to fix it. Alternatively if you bought the identical drive from the LEM swaplist or ebay you could switch circuit boards from one drive to the other. This would be good if you could find the identical drive that had bad sectors. You could potentially get it for _cheap_ and swap it's board onto your drive. The key to this is that the drives have to be the same model number. Not close (it might work), but the same.
As for the soldering iron solution. You could (i haven't tried this yet) get some metal the same diameter as the pin desolder and remove the existing broken pin, cut new piece of metal to a good workable length, insert it through the plastic housing thing and resolder it to the board. Then cut off any excess. That should work. Since I haven't tried it yet, I can't report on my success with doing it, but in theory, if you're careful, it should work just fine. -nils On Sun, Oct 26, 2003 at 12:20:52PM -0600 or thereabouts, macnifico wrote: > Hi, Listers! > > I was changing a 4Gb HD from a 1400 to another 1400, but did something > wrong and one of the pins got bent. I tried to straighten it up, but > only made it worse. I broke down the pin. > Is there an economical way to repair the HD? I'd like to get some > programs I have in that particular HD... > > I got a Farallon EtherMac PC Card with no dongle. Is there a source for > this dongles somewhere? > > TIA & best regards. > Hugo Diaz -- PowerBooks is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> PowerBooks list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/powerbooks.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/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
