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

[Kristo Kriechbaum]

On Sunday 05 February 2006 10:17 am, mikepolniak wrote:
> On 08:46 Sun 05 Feb     , Kristo Kriechbaum wrote:
> > On Sunday 05 February 2006 7:33 am, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
> > > 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/
> > >
> > > Understand this: you're buying a new drive anyway.  There's noother
> > > practical alternative.
>
> I just bought this _exact_ drive today at BestBuy for $79.00 (no rebates
> involved either). This might be your best shot.

I picked one up myself, and lo and behold the logic board was _exactly_ the 
same.  I was surprised given I bought my drive over a year ago.  I swapped 
the board with my busted one, and the drive seems to be fine now.  Now to 
figure out whether to buy a huge new drive, or still try to figure out what 
the capacitor value is.

Thanks to everyone for all their help and suggestions.

Kristo