POLL: recovering fried hard drives

[skyking]

This is regarding replacing burnt controller boards only.
I went 0 for 3, counting the drive I shipped out to another trader. I'd like to get some real world results to point people at, I think they'd be surprised.

If you have had success or failure on multiple drives, please post the details. This is my first poll, so if it sucks, PM me with suggestions!

 

[redbeard1]

A long time ago, with drives below 500mb, I was able to get a couple of drives revived by putting a new controller on them. More recently, I've had to deal with at least 30 Quantum LCT drives that blew the same particular chip, in the exact same trace, on almost all of the drives. After a while, we had built up quite a pile and tried to swap a board from one that still worked onto the burnt ones. On every one of the attempts, all they did, was sound like they were trying to spin up but couldn't. So did the chip burn the motor out, or did the motor burn the chip out?

 

[skyking]

my experiences were all similar. The drive would spin up, but the head would seek and seek, never initializing. the new parts combination was never recognized as a "drive".