Meat Plow wrote:

On Mon, 29 Oct 2007 14:17:01 -0400, PeterD wrote:


On Mon, 29 Oct 2007 08:26:59 -0700, SCIENCE
wrote:


Hey guys, my 160 GB SATA Hard Disk is not working . It just happened
when i connected to older
PC due to low watt from SMPS, than a Brilliant White Smoke came,
immediately i switched off the power supply. when i check the Hard
Disk the Capacitor has Burnt, Assuming it should not cause any damage
to the hard disk. Now i want that PCB of 160 GB Seagate Hard Disk in
order to replace the burnt one . Can you help me ? where do i get that
PCB ? Please............

Not an option, there is information about the drive platters, heads,
etc, stored on NVRAM on the card. Any other card won't hve the right
information.


Why not if the heads and the platters are the same which they should be in
an identical drive. Critical data is stored on an engineering track on the
media itself, not nvram.

Drive controllers mask out bad sections in the drive.
2 identical drives with the same contents may have different mappings
on the platter.


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