Cris, I recently went thru the same ordeal with a WD400BB drive and I am
interested to know if you have any leftover HDD's as I would be willing to
pay for a replacement just for its controller card. here are the specs of my
WD400BB:
Model - WD400BB-75CAA0
Date: 04 MAR 2002
DCM: HSEANA2CH
S/N: WMA8H2787049


Cris Wilson wrote:
> 
> 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
> To report problems email: aah_computers@clemson.edu
> 
> 
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