>
> On Feb 4, 2010, at 3:53 AM, Ruben J=F6nsson wrote:
>
>> Perhaps you could take a shortcut and use a program which does data  =

>> recovery?
>> Look for testdisk and photorec from Christophe Grenier.
>>
>>  Peter
>
> This is not for the damaged disk but for a working one.
>
> The idea was to use the, for me until now, unknown serial TTL RS232  =

> interface
> to access a working disk. The benefit would be to use only 3 pins  =

> and simple
> ASCII commands through an integrated PIC UART (or a bit banged one)  =

> instead of
> using the (S)ATA interface.
>
> I hoped that if it is possible it might already be done by now (that  =

> is reading
> and writing to a working hard disk, not trying to recover a broken  =

> one).
>
>
> /Ruben
>
>
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> Ruben J=F6nsson
> AB Liros Electronic
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Be sure to let us know how this works out.  I wonder if SSDs  ( Solid  =

State Drives ) are arranged in the same fashion ?
Gus
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