whiletruedobreak

WAIT, WAIT...I have read the FGA! This is a request for clarification/additional info.. When I started researching possible ways to fix a failed drive earlier today, one solution I read about was a company that sells replacement PCBs for drives, including the Seagate 7200.11. When I looked at their site (http://stores.ebay.com/PCB-Solution-Hard-Drive-Board-Store/_i.html?_fsub=1831226016) I saw that one of the things you have to do when you purchase one of these boards is to send them information off of your board and, in fact, the bad board. It appears that they use this information to customize the board that they send back to you. It seems reasonable to me that this MIGHT work as it seems to address the issue noted in the FGA. So the purpose of this post is to suggest that if anyone knows (one way or the other) then you might wish to expand the FAQ to include this information. As for my problem, it has all the earmarks of the 7200.11 BSY problem and I am looking forward to trying to use the repair procedures documented here after I get a RS-232/TTL converter....even though I have a 7200.12 and there doesn't seem to be any definitive posts on the BSY problem on this version of the drive. Still, I can hope that it will!