[mythtv-users] Help with a semi-busted hard drive (with all my recordings) (Endaf Jones)

[Steve Briggs]

On Sat, Feb 04, 2006 at 09:33:48PM -0800, Kristo Kriechbaum wrote:
> So I was making some changes in my mythbox today, and I really screwed up.  I 
> broke a surface mount capacitor on one of my hard drives.  I tried to 
> resolder it back on, but it ended up breaking apart a bit.  This drive is 
> (was?) part of an lvm group that has all our recordings, music, and video on 
> it.
> 
> The drive is a Seagate Barracuda 7200.7, 200Gb, model ST32000822A.  Pictures 
> detailing the damage are at http://robotics.caltech.edu/~klk/drive/

I have 2 suggestions (basically agreeing with much of what has already been said)

Capacitor values generally aren't critical.   I'd experiment, starting out in the
in the .01 - .1 uf range.

If you have an indentical logic board from the same size drive, you can swap
logic boards.  The combination of old platters + new logic board should work
fine.  That doesn't fix the drive (you still have one dead drive), but at least
you get the data back -- which is probably worth more than the drive.

Steve



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