That depends
on whter the NVRA was damaged, or simply corrupt, surely?
Didn't the OP mention that the NVRAM appeared to have been resoldered.
Of course that might just have been elimintating dry joints.
...or simply popped the existing NVRAM out to reprogram it. Hard to
I thought you said it was in-circiut-programmable?
In any case, if I was repairing a drive and had oto desolder a chip like
this, I would fit a new one.
say. But don't most states require that if parts
are replaced that
they be itemized on the inovice and the original parts be made
available to the owner?
There are probably also regulations about amking arbitrary charages and
not justifying them...
-tony