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Old May 28th 18, 09:02 AM posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt,alt.windows7.general,alt.comp.os.windows-10
Diesel
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B00ze news May 2018 03:50:50 GMT in alt.windows7.general, wrote:

Good day all.

Finally took the drives out of the old PC. The one that won't
calibrate anymore, the spindle makes an awful whine, but it seems
to spin OK (last time I checked SMART, there were no spin-up
errors.) It was really going to die soon no matter what. So right
now it kicks the heads back and forth for 5 minutes before giving
up. I swapped the controller board with another of the same model,
made the same day. Now the drive kicks 2 or 3 times and settles
down, and makes those "I'm reading a sector" noises.
Unfortunately, it is not enough, it never really becomes ready so
it never appears in Windows (I am forced to use a USB adapter, I
might be able to access it on a real IDE PC). I'd maybe have to
swap that tiny ROM chip between the boards, but I do not like
where it is located, it's going to be a pain using a soldering
iron and I'm afraid I'll un-solder half the board if I use a heat
gun (never tried that on electronics, and I don't think now is a
good time to try.)


There's no point in swapping components on the boards themselves at
this point. Your drive has a mechanical issue and exchanging the ROM
isn't going to fix that.

Since I'm not sure what's wrong, I'm not going to attempt swapping
the heads between my 2 drives. If I mess-up, I won't even know,
because the problem could be something other than the heads. So
I'll be sending it away. Found a place with a fixed price
depending on hard drive size. Since this is a really small drive,
the price is good. I'll give'em the donor drive too. I will report
back.


Please do. If possible and they're willing to tell you, please share
what they determine the problem turned out being. Thanks!



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