“Or I broke the power connector off this IBM DTLA, but I still think there a possibility to salvage Data…”
A customer came in with an IBM DTLA 46GB drive with the power-connector broken off!
The customer said that the Hdd had failed during a game he played and he had snapped the game cd in two pieces and thrown it away when he thought that the game had caused the failure…
A game that makes physical damage to the outside of a HDD, imagine that…
He thought that there were replacement circuit boards readily available…
And the data was “priceless” he claimed (Insurance companies use a slightly different term “worthless” )
Why not solder it up to a 4-pin Molex connector and see if I can salvage anything? I thought.
After consulting Greebe (our resident soldering expert at the forums), I soldered it up and was surprised when the hdd started up!
I combined two 4-->3 pin connectors to get thinner wires.
I wasn’t surprised when DFT (Drive Fitnes Test, works on most modern IBM drives both IDE & SCSI) reported this:
Guess I don’t have to guess how it was damaged….
The customer all teary eyes couldn’t take reality and still thinks that I forgot a jumper and if he just connected it then he would be able to transfer his data!
Unfortunately this customer has a history of violence against equipment!
A customer came in with an IBM DTLA 46GB drive with the power-connector broken off!
The customer said that the Hdd had failed during a game he played and he had snapped the game cd in two pieces and thrown it away when he thought that the game had caused the failure…
A game that makes physical damage to the outside of a HDD, imagine that…
He thought that there were replacement circuit boards readily available…
And the data was “priceless” he claimed (Insurance companies use a slightly different term “worthless” )
Why not solder it up to a 4-pin Molex connector and see if I can salvage anything? I thought.
After consulting Greebe (our resident soldering expert at the forums), I soldered it up and was surprised when the hdd started up!
I combined two 4-->3 pin connectors to get thinner wires.
I wasn’t surprised when DFT (Drive Fitnes Test, works on most modern IBM drives both IDE & SCSI) reported this:
Guess I don’t have to guess how it was damaged….
The customer all teary eyes couldn’t take reality and still thinks that I forgot a jumper and if he just connected it then he would be able to transfer his data!
Unfortunately this customer has a history of violence against equipment!
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