wanted: particular Seagate 500GB S-ATA HD

[igk]

i'm looking for a very specific Seagate HD for parts. (mine is pulled from a Lacie external enclosure purchased at Futureshop)

if you have one for sale, please send me:

1) P/N number
2) site code
3) firmware number
4) PCB code if possible (this is found on the green circuit board on the bottom of the drive)

in particular, here is the info from my HD:

ST3500830AS
P/N: 9BJ136-100
Firmware 3.AFD
Date Code: 08082
Site Code TK
PCB: 100406540 E C3046P2B

i'm willing to buy you a brand new hard drive in exchange, or we can negotiate a price if you prefer cash.

thanks a lot

[igk]

maybe someone has one...

[igk]

hoping

[Ren]

Ygpm

[AndrewR]

Did it crash?

[Gee]

Let me guess, the firmware bricked your drive and you want to get another drive to replace the circuit board and hopefully recover your data.

[iLLNESS]

i '*MAY* have this drive...
ive got a 500gig seagate with similar model dont remember off hand. ill check this weekend likely and let you know..
i think i have two actually.. ones bricked though so good chance its same as yours :)

EDIT:
Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 3.5IN 500GB SATA2 8.5MS 7200RPM 32MB Cache NCQ Hard Drive

this is the drive thats shows on my invoice. all the info i can pull up for now..

[iLLNESS]

no go on that drive sorry..

its a 320 not an 830

[jdsony]

What happened to your drive did it overheat? I have the exact same drive/firmware from a Lacie Porsche enclosure and it died the other day so I'm on the same search. Seatools tells me it exceeded 70 degrees which is probably the cause since I always found it to run extremely hot.

[igk]

i was stupid. i used the wrong power adapter from another enclosure by accident and the voltage was slightly different. it fried the circuit board! i started to smell smoke coming out of the enclosure!

luckily, someone here on RFD had the exact same drive and i was able to use the circuit board and recover all of my data.