[SWLUG] ot: hard disk recovery

[Steve Hill]

On Thu, 28 Jun 2007, Justin Mitchell wrote:

> but to my mind, if it was the controller board that was gone then it
> just wouldnt talk to you at all, so its more likely that the surface or
> the heads have been trashed, in which case your only hope would be the
> clean room rebuild and even thats not guaranteed.

>From what I've read about drive recovery, controller boards blow up all 
the time but often still talk to the host (so I guess the actual 
controller itself is fine but something on the board responsible for 
sending signals to the voice coil or receiving signals from the heads has 
gone pop).

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