| [News] Seagate ST3660A needed | ANN.lu |
| Posted on 17-Jan-2001 15:48 GMT by Christian Kemp | 34 comments
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In the beginning of January, Allan Odgaard managed to short circuit his harddisk. His hope is that someone has an identical harddisk, from which he can borrow the control print to restore his data. "The model is a Seagate ST3660A and the drive parameters are 1057CYL-16HEADS-63SECT-545.5MB." Also see his original message.
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| Comment 1 | PaulT | | 16-Jan-2001 23:00 GMT |
| Comment 2 | yeah, anon | | 16-Jan-2001 23:00 GMT |
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| Posted by Dave on 16-Jan-2001 23:00 GMT | In reply to Comment 1 (PaulT):
I'd hardly call Allan Odgaard a "luser" - I would have said look around his site, but it's been replaced by that message. He's written numerous MUI classes, and has his name on credit lists for OS3.5 and YAM (the only two I can think of ATM). And he contributes a lot to the amiga-c programming list on egroups. So losing his sources would be more than a $30 loss. However, I don't see that he'd spend vast amounts on recovering his data - after all he can't make much/any money from Amiga software, and he's a student. Equally, I don't see that he would enjoy re-writing everything he had from scratch if he cannot recover the data, which would be a loss to more people than just Allan.
By "control print", I think he means the printed circuit board which the control logic is on. It should be fairly separate from the mechanics of the HDD, apart from the obvious wires required for transferring data off the disks and controlling the motors. Depending how this has been done, it could be fairly simple to replace, or it could be difficult as you suggest. Sod's law indicates that it will be more difficult than it looks, and this will only become apparent after starting.
It would be too easy for me to say "he should have had a backup", and since I'm bad at keeping backups too, I won't mention it :) |
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