Doug Hughes <d...@will.to> writes: > Well, swapping the electronics will not help anybody. A modern drive is > carefully factory calibrated with its particular electronics and heads. > There is nothing that you can swap between drives to make them useful.
Actually, with consumer-grade sata, swapping the drive electronics (between drives of the same model, of course) works far more often than it does not, in my experience. Now, it's not something I'd /depend/ on, just 'cause manufacturers change things mid-run, but it is one of the things I try when I'm doing data recovery. Last time I had to do that sort of thing, swapping the electronics didn't fix it, but to verify it wasn't something on the PCB we moved the PCB from the bad disk to a good disk just like it, and the good disk still appeared to work. (we ended up fixing the drive by sticking it in the freezer for a few hours; it worked long enough for us to get the data off of it. That was maybe three years ago.) _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list Tech@lopsa.org http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
