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Thank you very much for the advice! I will try to find a compatible
logic card. Thanks!
Ken
Rod Speed wrote:
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>>Hello, thank you for the responses!
>>So, the specifics on the drive are:
>>Quantum Fireball TM 3.5 Series TM32A012
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>>Exactly what I did was to very foolishly mistake the 3-pin power port on the
>>back of the drive for the jumper pins. It is between the 4-pin power input and
>>the many-pin IDE cable input as displayed in this document:
>>http://www.maxtor.com/_files/maxtor/en_us/documentation/quantum_jumper_settings/fireball_tm_jumpers.pdf
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>>Upon further inspection of where the 3-pins connect to the circuit board I see
>>that one is labeled GND, and one +5V, and the middle one is not labeled.
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> 12V
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>>So, by putting a jumper on those pins I connected the +5V pin with the center
>>pin and I assume that shorted out the drive and fried something on the board.
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> OK, that makes a lot more sense.
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>>After doing that I realized that the jumpers are on the underside of the drive
>>but by then it was too late and the BIOS no longer will see the drive.
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>>I hope that clarifies the scenario.
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> Yeah, you likely have fried the logic card.
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>>I really appreciate the suggestions and help!
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> Its very easy to change the logic card if you can find another one.
> Best to get one of another fireball TM of the same size off ebay.
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>>Rod Speed wrote:
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>>>ken <ken@nospam.com> wrote in message
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>>>>I've just fried an old harddrive (3.2GB Quantum Fireball)
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>>>Which fireball exactly ? What letters are there after that like EX ?
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>>>>while trying to put it in slave mode by putting a jumper on the 5volt pin on
>>>>the back where other drives often have the master/slave jumper pins.
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>>>What 5V jumper ? There's only a reserved jumper on that vintage of Fireball.
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>>>>The drive still spins up and a little green LED on the underside still comes
>>>>on however the BIOS now fails to recognize the drive as master or slave.
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>>>>Is there anything I can do to recover this drive or at least the data on the
>>>>drive?
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>>>First thing to do is get clear what you managed to do to the drive.
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>>>If you have actually killed it, and thats very unlikely,
>>>you should be able to swap the logic card from
>>>another Fireball of the same model and size.
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>>>You should be able to find one on ebay.
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>>>>Ultimately I was trying to mount it as a slave so I could burn the entire
>>>>drive image to a dvd before cleaning it and re-using it in an old machine.
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