[ale] hard drive electronics change

[James P. Kinney III]

I have a server that was built several years ago. It has (had) 4
identical model IBM DeskStar (DeathStar) drives. One died today.

<self-flaming-rant>
Of course the back-ups are out dated as that filesystem was _supposed_
to be just archival retrieving. I didn't know about the 1k+ PDF files
added since the last backup as "that's all there is of that stuff".
</self-flaming-rant>

I don't know if this is one of the "click of death" models. Right now,
the bios can't see the drive on any machine I have tried it on. It makes
no noise at all. That makes me suspect the electronics pack is toast and
the drive it self is intact.

I am merging the other 3 drives over to new drives as I don't want the
hassle of more failures (the 4 serial numbers are nearly sequential!!
The lowest numbered drive is the one that died!!).

I plan on using one of the still working drives as parts for the
electronics board on the dead drive. Has anyone got any pointers or
warnings?
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