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- From: wang@wintermute.fullerton.edu (wang)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: What am I getting myself into? (Hard drive question)
- Date: 26 Jan 1993 00:13:13 -0800
- Organization: California State University at Fullerton
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- I have a hard drive from a friend who has accidentally
- plugged the DC connector BACKWARDS. Undoubtedly, it is
- now non-functioning. My question is: is it possible to
- fix such a drive? If so, how involved would it be? My
- assumption is that there should be some protective
- circuits on the drive which prevents a reverse current
- to pass to the other components. If so, I may just have
- to replace a couple of diodes. Could it be that simple?
-
- The drive is a Seagate ST-251-1.
-
- Peter
-