Hard drive logic board... bear with me!
I'm trying to replace a logic board on a Maxtor Fireball 3 40gb
3.5inch. How exact does the replacement have to be? As long as it has the serial 2F040L0, like the one I have, am I OK? There seems to be a lot of drives and logic boards with this serial on ebay, but the markings on the drive seems ever so slightly different (only in the locations of the numbers and barcodes are changed though) Thanks! |
Hard drive logic board... bear with me!
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Hard drive logic board... bear with me!
On Feb 24, 1:31 am, pcbldrNinetyEight pcbldrninetyeight.com wrote:
How much is the drive worth? Anything you buy on ebay will be a crap shoot. If it's cheap enough then take a chance. -- pcbldrNinetyEight The drive isn't worth jack! What's on it is though... There's a few 2F040L0s out there at about E20 each (and to be honest, it's not my money) so I'll give it a shot and report back... |
Hard drive logic board... bear with me!
On Feb 22, 12:39 pm, DanSolo wrote:
I'm trying to replace a logic board on a Maxtor Fireball 3 40gb 3.5inch. How exact does the replacement have to be? As long as it has the serial 2F040L0, like the one I have, am I OK? There seems to be a lot of drives and logic boards with this serial on ebay, but the markings on the drive seems ever so slightly different (only in the locations of the numbers and barcodes are changed though) Thanks! Well I got an indentical (except it's 20gb) drive. Works fine in the PC. Swapped boards and neither will work. This is bad I guess as it means both the board and the motor/heads/etc are mangled. Nothing for it now except try to crack them open and swap the platter I guess. Wish me luck boys, I'm going in. |
Hard drive logic board... bear with me!
DanSolo wrote:
On Feb 22, 12:39 pm, DanSolo wrote: I'm trying to replace a logic board on a Maxtor Fireball 3 40gb 3.5inch. How exact does the replacement have to be? As long as it has the serial 2F040L0, like the one I have, am I OK? There seems to be a lot of drives and logic boards with this serial on ebay, but the markings on the drive seems ever so slightly different (only in the locations of the numbers and barcodes are changed though) Thanks! Well I got an indentical (except it's 20gb) drive. Works fine in the PC. Swapped boards and neither will work. This is bad I guess as it means both the board and the motor/heads/etc are mangled. Nothing for it now except try to crack them open and swap the platter I guess. Wish me luck boys, I'm going in. Will you be wearing the bunny suit like this guy ? Looking cool, is important when working on the platters. http://services.seagate.com/facilities.aspx http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleanroom Paul |
Hard drive logic board... bear with me!
Well I got an indentical (except it's 20gb) drive. Works fine in the
PC. Swapped boards and neither will work. Because they're not identical. It's not a case of 'almost identenical' or 'pretty close', you need an *exact* match to the make, model, capacity, revision, etc of the drive for it to work. This is bad I guess as it means both the board and the motor/heads/etc are mangled. Nothing for it now except try to crack them open and swap the platter I guess. Wish me luck boys, I'm going in. I hate to sound pesamistic, but all you're likely to do is destroy both drives entirely in the process. For starters you require a cleanroom environment to even open a drive (the space between the heads and the platters is in the range of hundredths if not thousanths of a millimeter, so a single spec of dust can cause irreppairable damage). Even if you had the right facilities, you would still only be able to swap platters with an identical model - but that's a moot point because if everything was identical you could swap the boards anyway. Chris |
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