Hello, I have done this for a friend. Bought the same hard drive
swapped boards and it was fine. It worked perfectly and he's
still using it. Of coarse if it's something inside that could get
more interesting.

Pete

-----Original Message-----
From: piclist-bounces@mit.edu [mailto:piclist-bounces@mit.edu]On Behalf
Of John Remington
Sent: Friday, September 01, 2006 4:28 PM
To: Microcontroller discussion list - Public.
Subject: [OT] Western Digital Drive Failure


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?

TIA and best regards, John.
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