[plug] Dead hdd

[Craig Foster]

20G Fujitsu?

Let the chip cool down, and then ghost/dd/whatever as much as possible. They
usuaully get you through on UDMA66 - just.
Then take it back to the wholesaler for an exchange... The new ones have a
glazing over the Cirrus Logic chip, and old ones are just plain soldered on
to the board.

That's if you can't get another temporary new Fujitsu off someone already :P

CraigF.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: plug-bounces at plug.linux.org.au 
> [mailto:plug-bounces at plug.linux.org.au] On Behalf Of Ari Finander
> Sent: Sunday, 16 May 2004 11:47 PM
> To: plug at plug.linux.org.au; kaerhp at lycos.com
> Subject: Re: [plug] Dead hdd
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "N K" <kaerhp at lycos.com>
> Date: Sat, 15 May 2004 14:26:10 +0800
> To: plug at plug.linux.org.au
> Subject: [plug] Dead hdd
> > Howdy...been away from the comp for another matters, sorry 
> for the late reply.
> > 
> > Fujitsu
> > Model MPG3204AT -E
> > Cylinder 16383
> > Head 16
> > Sectors 63
> > 
> 
> That model looks familiar... Fujitsu got supplied a lot of 
> bad chips, and they didn't discover this until their drives 
> started failing at a rather high rate. Swapping in a good 
> circuit board often did the trick. I had a working one of the 
> fujitsu 20gb drives and sold it to someone who needed the 
> circuit board for just this purpose.
> 
> Ari
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