Hello! I've been reading the posts in this topic for quite some time now, which I had only printed the very first page of, not realizing there were now 130 pages! I tried to order parts exactly as they were shown on page 1, but some of the links were outdated, so I just got an RS232 Shifter from SparkFun and the jumpers and headers. I didn't like the thought of cutting cables and crimping them together, so I bought a Manhattan USB to Serial Converter (DB9M (RS232)) from a local computer store where no one had heard of this Seagate issue! In all fairness, no one at Best Buy in the computer department heard of it either, despite there being thousands of people with this same problem. I also bought a soldering kit from Radio Shack, a CR2032 battery, and a battery holder for that size battery. Last night, I soldered four wires onto the RS232 Shifter and have a set up that looks EXACTLY like what is pictured on the first page's picture. I was all excited about finally trying this out tonight, but I was confused by the part about powering down when using the CR2032 battery. I thought the battery was powering the hard drive somehow, but now I think it's powering the shifter. So my question is, after reading a bunch of pages and getting more and more confused by everyone cutting up cables and not using the battery method, I don't see anything powering the hard drive in the picture on the first page. Are you all somehow doing all of the unscrewing and screwing of the PCB while the hard drive is inside of the drive, or are you using an alternate method of powering the drive, since the power cable I'd normally use for the drive is too short? It's a bit overwhelming to search through 130 pages to find the answer when I end up with even more questions by the seventh page. Also, in the part about ,,,, vs. ,0,0,0, can I assume they are the same thing? The original instructions say ,,,, but then everyone else is talking about ,0,0,0,. Thank you kindly! MRA