drive recovery

[Technomage Hawke]

On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 1:10 PM, Technomage Hawke
<technomage.hawke at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 1:05 PM, Kevin Faulkner <kondor6c at cox.net> wrote:
>  > > (this indicates a possible electronics package failure).
>  >  >
>  >  > what I need to do is this: I need to get my data off the drive and
>  >  > onto a backup.
>  >  >
>  >  > does anyone happen to have a spare electronics package laying around
>  >  What do you mean by electronics package?? I hope your not just planning on
>  >  swapping the PCB (Printed Circuit Board or Primary Controller Board, it varies).
>  >  If you swap with the wrong one you could be worse off. When swapping those out
>  >  you need to be very precise with Western Digitals you need to be aware of the
>  >  Site Code as well as the top number/letter combo, i think with yours it might be
>  >  something like: AMR <number here> or AMK I don't remember something like that
>  >  though. I know what its like to loose data, keep us informed.
>
ok,
here the numbers I do have:

S/N: WCANU1419620
WWN: 50014EE2AAB5FB6D
MDL: WD500ks-00MNB0
DCM: HCACAJAAB

does any of this help?