At 04:28 PM 9/1/2006, you wrote:
>I recently lost a drive (7200 rpm 40gig Caviar) during a power brown-out /
>power failure.  I wasn't home at the time so I'm not sure about the
>condition other than what I heard . . .   people say the power dipped and
>peaked a bunch of time before going out completely (lightining hit a main
>transformer).

If it is just the controller board, then you can do that, but you have to
get the exact same version of the hard drive.
I don't mean just a WD400, you have to get the same Rev number as well.
The Rev number is on the hard drive label to the left of the bottom bar code,
it probably says something like Rev A01 or A00.

It may just be the protection diodes on the board that blew. They are usually
right behind where power plugs into the board and are yellow or black squares
(I think they are yellow on the WD400). If they are cracked then sometimes you
can just replace them. Although, as soon as I got the data off the 
drive, I'd toss
the drive.

Let me know what the rev number is and I can probably drop one in the mail to
you. I've got a stack of old Dells that are about to be surplused and 
I know they
had WD400s in them.

_____________________________________________________________
Cris Wilson
Information Resource Consultant
College of Architecture, Arts, and Humanities
Clemson University
cris@clemson.edu
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