Hard Drive

[Garrett Goebel]

Gene Dascher wrote:
>
> Does anyone have a dead IBM DeskStar Model IC35L040AVER07-0
> that they would be willing to part with?  I have one that works fine,
> but some of the pins got bent/pushed in, so I want to see if
> I can just swap the cards on the drives.  This is on topic as I have
> all of my Linux files on that drive!

I should probably assume you've already considered and dismissed this. But,
a good pair of tweezer, fine needle nose pliers, or in a hurry a pocket
knife can usually put those bent pins back in alignment. Of course the last
time I did it, was with a pocket knife and I bent the pin around so much
that it broke off...

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Garrett Goebel
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