7200.11 SA location, etc

[Russwinters]

Hey all,

I was wondering if anyone new the typical location of SA on seagate 7200.11 series drives (IE: inner, middle, or outer tracks; is the primary firmware mapped to H0 only, or multiple heads, etc)

The reason I am asking is I have a 500GB 7200.11 with a pretty bad head crash on the top platter only (weird, i know). I have confirmed that all other heads are in perfect condition. The platter damage from the crash is on the outer edge of the disk only.

I am suspecting that I can replace the heads, and then get it up and running and try either a reverse image, or by-head image to get the data.

Of course this won't work if the SA bit the dust with the crash. Hence my question.

Anyone have any luck with this?

Regards,

[pepe]

The SA is near the parking zone, but the head will sweep the whole surface during initialization, so it will probably hit the damaged area...
There is some solution to this problem, I can help, but we are apparently pretty far from eachother.

pepe