My drive spins up, but will not recognize in Bios. Need replacement controller.

SEAGATE BARRACUDA 7200.8
300 Gbyte
ST3300831A
FIRMWAR E 3.01


No visible damage to board, but I'm desperate- worth the $$ to try.

Post a pic of the PCB .

Hi,

Better do a proper diagnosis before buying a board.
Try to put the terminal-output of the board here. If you dont know how to do, look in other postings on hddguru. It's all explained there.

Best regards,

Dobre

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Thanks for the advice. I'll read a bit more, then post the terminal output here.

Am I correct that to post the terminal output, I need to build this,

then connect it to the correct pins on the hdd,
and post the information as it appears in a HyperTerminal window?

Thanks!

That's pretty much it.

If you're alergic to soldering, you can get these premade on Ebay.

I'll throw it together this afternoon. If I wasn't so miserable about having lost my data, I'd say this is turning out to be alot of fun! Thanks for all the help.

It can be a lot of fun, if it's not your data

I have pcb for the drive u can PM for more info .