25 Nov
2010
25 Nov
'10
8:27 p.m.
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