< What we now need is for some brave person (me, Allison???) to take a < number of old (and dead) drives, make a clean box, pull them apart, < document everything, and write a repair manual.... Either that or I have to trouble shoot the two maxtor2190s(rd54) I have with seek spindown death. I know it's not a HDA problem as I opened them and watch the gyrations. Allison