On Fri, 09 Sep 2005 09:42:14 -0400, Charlie Bress wrote:

Pin 1 is listed as "reset" and does not share this with any other pin.

If the drive has data on it worth trying to save, I would try contacting
Maxtor and seeing if they can and would replace the connector.

This sounds expensive too.

A real drop dead plan is this. Find a local geek or a willing repair man.
Get another cable, cut free the pin 1 line. Now with the drive plugged into
this connector tack solder the loose line that went to pin 1 directly to the
Maxtor circuit board. Now you should be able to do a bunch of things
depending on how much you want to save. Burn a CD-ROM, dump to a flash
drive, or transfer to a second drive that is installed as a slave and will
be the new drive after all is done.

This is exactly what I'd do. Since it is the "reset" pin, there is not
likely and critical timing involved. Take a cable, snip out the #1
conductor (should be the one with the red tracer), and solder it to the
connector on the board side. Then copy the contents of the drive (PQMagic
is my tool of choice) to the new drive.

Good luck

Indeed.

--
Keith

P.S. Top posting sucks.