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Eric Gisin
 
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Default Maxtor disk failed. Controller replacement?

Just grab all of them (with same board) you see on ebay.
Don't do the "freezer trick" if you value your data.

"Jaz" wrote in message ...
A have a Maxtor 20GB 2B020H1 which is doing the spin-up then spin-down
thing. The controller says ATHENA ATA2-PLUS, FBII 301430100.

I found this site http://www.hddtech.co.uk/MaxtorFailureSymptoms.htm
and my symptoms match precisely. So I bought a working 2B020H1 used.

I swapped the contoller but the drive isn't recognized at POST. I
swapped the controller back to the spare-parts drive and that one
works fine. Worth noting is that with the spare controller, the
original drive no longer spins down after spin up.