Deathstar

[KingofFah]

I've had hard drives die in the past, but they always give a death rattle when the time is getting close (at least a week or two before they die). Of course, this is a 40GB deskstar, and I am well aware of the series' reputation.
Here's what's going on:
It was working properly, just pulled it from another system I replaced with a 300gb seagate (no previous problems with the drive).
The irritating thing is that I decided to do a clean install of win2k and linux, and I have a data partition on my primary drive (also a deskstar, and I am going to use some recovery tools to see if I can bring back the data partition). I decided to copy all of my data onto the new(er) hard drive, while I formatted and installed.
Guess what? Drive doesn't do anything. No spinning. I've tried different cables (I've got plenty of brand new ones), different power supply connectors, different power supply, unplugging all other peripherals to make sure enough power is getting through. Nothing. It didn't make a warning sound at all before it went.
I am not someone to really care about the material, but it would be nice to get all my hours coding off the drive.

Here's what I want to know:
Who has a deskstar they would be willing to part with, what size is it, and what firmware version? I am really just looking for the matching logic board (this seems like the likely problem).
I just remembered that my data recovery software on that drive anyway (I really should have done a CD backup of the drive -- I have no blanks though). Maybe you know some dead deskstar that died of motor failure or something other than the logic board, if so tell me.

Its death just seems strange to me.

 

[montag451]

you haven't put the model no of the drive -
or the version.
Just write every series of numbers on the drive to give ppl a better idea what you are looking for.

One method you might want to try =
Put the hdd in the freezed for 24 hours.
Take it out -
Hook it up, do everything you need to within 5 minutes.

Sometimes a bit of does the trick for a short time

 

[Jeff7]

Heh, same boat as you; see the link in my sig.

I thought the problem was with the 60GXP and 75GXP; seems that every one of their drives is screwed up a bit. My RAID 5 setup is all Hitachi drives. Once I'm finished migrating the array to Seagate drives, I'll be disposing of the Hitachi's, at very reasonable prices, to anyone who wants to try their luck with what do appear to be functional, recent model drives. But my patience with Hitachi/IBM has run out.

 

[KingofFah]

That's the thing, I have never had a drive die without the click of death. It always has that death rattle. I put the drive in the freezer right before I made the post. I just tried it an hour ago and it's the same thing. It just seems like the thing isn't getting any power. I'll get the model number later on; I didn't feel like getting last night.

 

[KingofFah]

The model is: IC35L040AVVA07-0

 

[beatle]

Some don't give any warning click before they die. Neither of my now dead 40 gig 60GXPs gave me a warning. I lost one after I opened the case and changed a soundcard. When I powered the box on, my array was broken. The remaining drive lived for another year and a half before one of the pins on the ide connector became disconnected from its PCB! :shocked: