Hi...anyone tought about the board swap method again. and what to do with the click of death after the board swap. i can hook the drive up to tx/rx is there any kind of commands that can be run to reintialize the disc? Glad to see you managed to revive your drive. About the cache, yes that was discussed a lot, it seems Seagate used a very confuse scheme to manage 32MB. For 32MB they did, 0xFFFF + 1 * 512 = 33,554,432 = 32,768 (32MB). 0xFFFF + 1 should be 0x10000, but since they use 16-bit registry only, it goes back to 0x0000, this is why a LOT softwares will report those drives as 0 (zero) cache. Yes, $eagate did a very poor job here. So far the only program I know it will report the right cache size is Everest Ultimate Edition Cheers! So is this why HDTUNE PRO shows the ST31000333AS cache as N/A instead of 32MB?