Wanted to buy:
Western Digital
WD2300KS - 00PFB0
DCM: xxxxCAxxx (mine is HSBHCAJCH)

Looking for help/advice as well. Read related posts on the forums. Please tell me if I'm missing something obvious. I was trained as an electronics tech years ago and would like to repair it myself.

Thanks for the help and interest... Colin. (cbex)
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Whirrr...Click, Whirrr...Click, Whirrr...Click. Spin down.
Tested R120 and Q3 on the board. They are OK... Firmware???
Think I'll try PCB first, then replace write heads or transplant platters.
This drive was in a RAID0 array (stupid, stupid me)
There was about 1 disk failure on boot a day for three days then, BOOM:
No boot and the clicking noises started. Want to hear the noise???
Click this link to hear: http://www.atcost.org/need_hd/WD3200KS_noise.WAV
Click this for better pictures: http://www.atcost.org/need_hd

Did you find one? I am in the same boat. My pfb burnt. If you found a lead on boards, let me know.

TIA
BOsuck

I did get a donor, and I tried the salvation-data device and I transplanted heads twice to no avail. Bye-bye data. There was more that could be done, but I gave up at that point. I still have 2 00PFB0's
1: my old drive which quit and has head or other internal problems. (13 feb 2006)
2: a donor that I bought and transplanted one set of heads from. (04 may 2006)

both have pcb's that I believe are working fine, however I did swap the firmware chips at one point and switched them back, and I also was switching boards back and forth between drives, etc. I have no reason to believe that either of the PCB's would work assuming the firmware is correct or made to be correct.

the pcb's both are the same number:
2061-701393-800 AA

let me know if you need anything, as I am done playing with this stuff.

So at this point, neither of the drives work, right?

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You don't have to backup all of your files, just the ones you want to keep.

cbex,
Im new to this, it turns out I wrote the wrong number- that was off the bar code sticker not the number stamped on the pcb

The correct number is - 2060-701393-002 Rev B
Do we got a match?