Re: Maxtor hard drive failed with clicking

I am in bad luck!

I switched the logic board of this dead drive with one of my 120 GB
maxtor (6Y120P0) hard drive. There is small difference of the logic
boards, but the two drives have same firmware type (YAR41BW0). The
board model of my dead drive is 301862101 and the board model of the
120 GB drive is 301599100. From the Internet, I found that board
301862101 is a upgraded model of 301599100, with adding of a diode for
a stabler performance. So I think they should be exchengeable. My
results are as follows:

1. 200 GB drive (6Y200P0) with the board 301599100 from 120 GB drive
(6Y120P0): doesn't work; the problem remains with clunk from inside and
the drive cannt be recognized.

2. 120 GB drive (6Y120P0) with the board 301862101 from 200 GB dead
drive (6Y200P0): works without any trouble; it is still recognized by
my system as a 120 GB 6Y120P0 drive.

So now, it is clear that the clunk is from some mechanical failure
inside my 6Y200P0 drive. I don't know what is the exact sourse of
that, but its logic board is definitely good.

I checked the connections of the dead drive which is covered by the
logic board. Nothing weird! So I have to give up as this step. May
be next try I can do is to open the drive completely and check what is
wrong with the read/write head beam.

Anyone did this before?

Haitao

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