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 Post subject: Questions on Seagate 7200.11 refurbished recovery and donor
PostPosted: August 7th, 2017, 18:15 
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Hi all! Respectfully I want to ask if anyone can point me on the right direction: I have one Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 ST31000340AS recertified. The PCB is dead and the disk doesn´t spin (TVS are both OK). I get a donor, same model, same firmware and nearly same date.

I want to know if I only need to swap firmware chip (Winbond) or if I need to do extra job. Also I have a doubt about which chip has the firmware. I also have PC3k available. I include photos here.

Thank you in advance.


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 Post subject: Re: Questions on Seagate 7200.11 refurbished recovery and do
PostPosted: August 8th, 2017, 2:32 
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That's the right chip, and yes you 100% MUST switch this chip if the original PCB cannot be repaired by you.

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 Post subject: Re: Questions on Seagate 7200.11 refurbished recovery and do
PostPosted: August 8th, 2017, 5:03 
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be careful with the swap, if you damage that chip the recovery will be pretty costy...

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 Post subject: Re: Questions on Seagate 7200.11 refurbished recovery and do
PostPosted: August 9th, 2017, 2:32 
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pepe wrote:
be careful with the swap, if you damage that chip the recovery will be pretty costy...


Very true, have seen a fair few "bodged" chip swaps which have proven to be very costly indeed :-(

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 Post subject: Re: Questions on Seagate 7200.11 refurbished recovery and do
PostPosted: August 14th, 2017, 19:24 
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Thank you very much for comments. Chip swap was successfully. I can see disk onto PC3k (wrong size). After load it on utility everything were OK and I can copy data. Best regards!


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