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HD controller failure; recover data?

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by mbucherl

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Western Digital Cavier 22400; BIOS says "oh, oh..."

"No sweat," I said to the attorney, "I'll pair up your hard drive my spare machine and burn you a copy of the contents."

Master/slaveD, paired on IDE, then booted to 1782 error: hard drive controller error.

Is there a way to swap controllers? Can't find the WD model on their website: Cavier 22400 2GB.

Is it shipping platters out or is there a home style solution? Thanks!

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by thechas

This is an older drive. It should be listed in the Archive section of WD's web site.

To recover data from a drive with a controller error, you need to find the EXACT same model hard drive.
Then, you need the aid of an electronics tech with excellent soldering skills.
Swap the electronics between the working drive and the dead drive.

Sources for older hard drives:
www.compgeeks.com
www.computersurplusoutlet.com
www.pcliquidator.com

Chas

by mbucherl

If I'm not mistaken, the controller is the circuit board that plugs into the platter case. I beg to be corrected, neo-geek that I am. Also, a live search on WD's archive website did not list the Cavier 22400 (though it listed other models in the same capacity range).

by thechas

I'm looking at A WD AC22100 and AC22500 drive.
It does look like the controllers on these drives use connectors instead of direct solder fillets to connect the card to the platters.

So, you do not need soldering skills to swap these.
It still remains, that you need to find the exact same drive for the 'best' results swapping controller cards.

If all the part numbers on the card match between 2 drives, you should be okay.

The AC22100 has a card that covers the entire bottom of the drive.
2 part numbers: WDC 60-600621-004 REV A
and 61-600621-014 A (on white label)

The AC22500 card is 'L' shaped and covers 3/4 of the bottom of the drive.
Numbers: 60-600715-001 REV A
61-600715-008 C (on white label)

My concern is that there is 'firmware' installed to customize the controller card to the platters.

I just looked myself at WD's site and did not find a 22400 either.
This makes me believe that what you have is an OEM drive.
Another possability is that they had a run of drives with a higher or lower yield of bytes on the platter, and gave them the unique number to reflect the number of bytes available.

Chas

by mbucherl

Hi five, TheChas! It was a Compaq box (yes, probably OEM) and the attorney is trying to have a duplicate temporarily returned (that had been given away) so I can swap out. I'm assuming they were set up straight from the box and fairly well abused inthe maintenance area.

Thanks for the follow-up. ITc

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