WD Caviar: Thailand vs Malaysia for head swap

[shaun]

Hi all,

has anyone experiences with WD head stack swaps from a Thailand drive to a Malaysian one?
The drives are both WD800BB-**JKC0 (**=55 for the donor, 00 for the target) and from 11/05.

Yes, I've been told about the head alignment problems those drives give, but as it is a single-platter drive, I would like to practice on it.

[DR-Kiev]

Hi all,

has anyone experiences with WD head stack swaps from a Thailand drive to a Malaysian one?

It is no matter which drives country.
There are some other trouble aligment.

[hddinfo]

Yes, I've been told about the head alignment problems those drives give, but as it is a single-platter drive, I would like to practice on it.

practice on it and describe clicking noise after that swap in here.

[shaun]

Thanks for encouraging
I'll describe it, sure. But first e-waste-bay must deliver.

[Russwinters]

Be prepared to have to image it in the clean room, while you hold the alignment. Although you may be ok becaue it is single platter.

[shaun]

I'm prepared to almost anything
I was just talking to my mech if he sees a chance to make an alignment stand of some kind.
What kind of alignment is it exactly - I think it must be the angle which needs to be aligned, so that the heads are not shifted against each other and "see" the same sector at the same time and not vertical alignment. Right...?

[Russwinters]

I believe your assumption is correct.