Another Crazy Idea: disc drive controller swapping

[Chuck Guzis]

On 25 Nov 2010 at 12:14, steve shumaker wrote:

> controller board swapping used to be a "fairly frequent"  (interpret
> that at your pleasure) occurrence in the cyber forensic community as a
> method of reviving media taken as evidence.  Obviously it is rife with
> issues and some media will cooperate more than others but in general,
> the older media type with less on-board "smarts" will respond fairly
> well as long as the board(or chips if that old) are a good match. in
> terms of firmware...

Be careful to swap like-revision boards with like-revision boards if 
you do go down this road.  Swapping boards in dissimilar revs of Teac 
FD-505 drives can lead to magic smoke--take my word for it; I've had 
it happen.

--Chuck