[plug] [OT] Changing logic boards on failed seagate drives?

[Chris Caston]

On Thu, 2006-11-30 at 21:07 -0800, Fred Janon wrote:
> I did it several times with different drives with some success, since I
> did not know if the controller was dead or the drive itself. A couple
> of time it worked, recently on several 2.5". There was a bad batch of
> IBM drives in Dell laptops and I also fed my laptop with cereal and
> milk one morning. I was lucky to have the same drive to borrow the
> controller to get the data off it. I am not sure of what you mean by
> exact same controller. I don't know if mine had the same firmware on
> them, but definitely the same controller type for the same drive.

That can be the issue. Technology changes so fast. A certain controller
may only be used for 6 months if that. By the time a customers drive has
developed a failed logic controller their model of drive will have been
superceded.

regards,

Chris