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Seagate ST96812AS PCB Swap

September 10th, 2007, 14:41

Hi I have a Seagate ST96812AS with a burned PCB. My drive FW is 7.01 and I found a replacement drive to buy with FW 3.06. Also the PCB are different. Is there any way that it will work OK.

Re: Seagate ST96812AS PCB Swap

September 10th, 2007, 14:42

No, it won't work.

You need same F/W, at least

Re: Seagate ST96812AS PCB Swap

September 12th, 2007, 13:26

andrsslv wrote:Hi I have a Seagate ST96812AS with a burned PCB. My drive FW is 7.01 and I found a replacement drive to buy with FW 3.06. Also the PCB are different. Is there any way that it will work OK.


You'd better hope the heads haven't failed as well.

See here

http://www.retrodata.co.uk/notice_apple ... drives.php

Re: Seagate ST96812AS PCB Swap

September 15th, 2007, 12:51

These both pcbs are not even of the same family . Try repairing the burned pcb as u will have a hard time finding this pcb because its very old .
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