Re: Replace electronic of harddisk

From: someone (someone_at_spamfree.com)
Date: 08/16/04 

Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 17:24:40 -0400

"Stefan Schimanski" <1Stein@gmx.de> wrote in message
news:cfqqk8$k6u$1@svr7.m-online.net...
> Hi!
>
> My external harddisk (Seagate ST360014A) didn't survive the hot
> climate of the last days. I heard and saw a little explosion, turned
> off the drive immediately. Now it doesn't starting anymore, i.e. the
> disc do not rotate, but the electronic becomes very hot. I found a
> burned smd component (probably "fT 302 LEs", hardly readable anymore)
> and a bit of the plastic of one major ICs looks molten. I doubt that
> the IC is replacable.
>
> I would like to restore the driver to save the data on it. I looked
> around to get a replacement of exactly the same type, i.e. ST360014A,
> to use the electronics with the old harddisk. But the 60GB version
> seems to be unavailable (the drive is maybe 2y old). The 40GB
> (ST340014A) and the 80GB (ST380014A) versions seem to be available.
> They look exactly the same. So I hope that only the number of discs
> inside is different. What is my chance that those electronics will
> work with my 60GB drive? Are those electronics the same in one model
> line? Or do they use a special programming/firmware with every model?
>
> Thanks for your help in advance
> Schimmi
>
> P.S.: Using a company which is specialliced in hardware restoration is
> much too expensive for my case. I saw prices like 500¤ per harddisk.

Seagate has a webpage listing resellers of out of date hdd's - expect to pay
a finders fee!
Of course there is always Ebay for finding out of date hard drives.
Try to find the exact model, firmware and as close of a date of mfg as the
data drive.

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