On Fri, 2006-09-01 at 16:28 -0400, John Remington 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).
> 
> I didn't have a UPS on the machine that lost the drive (thank God I had one
> on my server or I would be in tears).  The drive has some stuff on it that I
> would really like to get off of it, but I believe the controller is cooked.
> 
> What do you folks think the chances are of waking this drive up by
> purchasing the same model drive (off ebay maybe?) and swapping out the
> controllers?  Would there be more to it, like swapping some firmware chips?

The chance of it working are quite high, assuming you get the right
board.

Controller boards are changed multiple times during the life of a model.
As long as you ensure the drive you buy has the exact same board as
yours you should be good to go. There is no need to swap any chips.

I've done this sort of thing once, and it worked well.

TTYL

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