Data recovery and disk repair questions and discussions related to old-fashioned SATA, SAS, SCSI, IDE, MFM hard drives - any type of storage device that has moving parts
October 13th, 2008, 9:55
Hi
Can anyone tell me the location of the Nvram and Rom chip on this board. I know what I think but thinking isn't good enough; I want to know
Drive is a Hitachi HDS721010KLA330 1TB
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October 13th, 2008, 10:00
U7 - ROM
U5- NVRAM
and somebody did try to fix that PCB
October 13th, 2008, 10:17
Certainly looks like it. One TVS/diode removed, another one played with!
October 13th, 2008, 11:28
Thanks everybody. I thought as much
I know the history of the board. The missing TVS was pretty much blown in half, the other has just been lifted. I know a soldering pro who's got all the hot air stations and stuff. We are going to move these chips to an identical donor board that I have already obtained. The data is not that important so we may as well have a go.
October 13th, 2008, 12:11
just to make things more fun, when the TVS was removed etc. what happened when you power the disk on? How does it sound? nothing at all?
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