Ok so I was trying to plug an IDE HD into the IDE cable and bent one of the pins. Ive done this before on other HDs and just used a small screw driver to bend the pin back, no problem. But this asshole decided to BREAK about half way down


I broke a piece of pin off a known bad HD and stuck it in the IDE slow where the broken pin would go, I booted up with a linux live CD and it picked up the drive so I mounted it and connected via SSH file transfer to move the files over to another PC.


nevermind on this part. the 2 0 byte files are 0 bytes files on the HD

It's a seagate ST360020A
and if you are looking at the pins, label side up its the top right first pin.

[Edited on March 30, 2008 at 2:45 PM. Reason : .]

3/30/2008 2:37:19 PM

so.. are there any valid files on the disk? if the drive is working, I would just hook it up and never touch the cable hooked to it again. maybe put it in an enclosure

3/30/2008 4:13:10 PM

yes.. about 34 GBs worth...


Its xfering them through ssh at a whopping 213kb/s


I was going to replace this drive anyways with a SATA drive, just wanted to get the data off while I still could

3/30/2008 4:41:00 PM