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cgallery
 Post subject: Compatible head stacks?
PostPosted: November 28th, 2006, 12:19 
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BAD=Hitachi TS HTS421212H9AT00 P/N 0A26308
Available=Hitachi TS [SAME] P/N 0A27469

Will head stack swap?
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hddguy
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PostPosted: November 28th, 2006, 12:49 
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Many people like to match MLC code also, but with this family of disks I match only the model and works 9 out of 10 times for me.
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pepe
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PostPosted: November 28th, 2006, 13:11 
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hddguy wrote:
Many people like to match MLC code also, but with this family of disks I match only the model and works 9 out of 10 times for me.


Hi,

maybe the MLC was matching 9 times out of 10, wasn't it :D

pepe
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hddguy
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PostPosted: November 28th, 2006, 13:13 
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Next time I will check if MLC matches and let you know :wink:
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pepe
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PostPosted: November 28th, 2006, 13:26 
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Hi,

thanx, that will be informative.

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coffeebean
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PostPosted: November 28th, 2006, 20:23 
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For heads compatibility MLC not important.
Also for some even model matching not important.
MLC relates ROM & NVRAM versions.
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pepe
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PostPosted: November 28th, 2006, 20:48 
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Hi,

Sometimes I experienced problems when using heads from HDAs with different MLCs. After finding a matching one everything went fine.
But it is true that it is not absolutely neccessary to match, but better:)
I also used AVVA heads in AVV2, but it read quite slowly.

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hddguy
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PostPosted: November 29th, 2006, 8:01 
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Today I had a clicking hitachi Deskstar which needs Head Stack replacement. I also have a donor but MLCs are different so I decided to swap heads anyway to see if you really dont need to match MLC.

Donor: Hitachi Deskstar IC35L060AVV207-0 61.4GB
P/N: 08K0833 MLC: H69206

Patient: Hitachi Deskstar IC35L060AVV207-0 41.1GB (refurbished as a 40GB)
P/N: 07N9218 MLC: H69404

Performed Head Swap and kept Patient PCB on Patient Disk. Recovered all the user data.

Hope that this is informative to everyone here :D
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dmarques
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PostPosted: November 29th, 2006, 11:10 
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That's always nice to know for future cases.

Thanks
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