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Help my iMac Intel HD issues!
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<blockquote data-quote="cwa107" data-source="post: 1348087" data-attributes="member: 24098"><p>"Should" be able to, yes - but I have seen situations where it can not. I suspect some of this has to do with the fact that they're using writeable flash chips instead of ROMs on modern drive mechs. So, the drive is susceptible to having its own firmware corrupted - my guess is it's probably heat related.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>If the firmware can't do a handshake on the bus, I don't believe any amount of coaxing would get the drive to actually talk to the controller (any controller, even an external one). With that said, there's a chance that if you could find an identical mech, you could pull the circuit board off the bottom of the drive and swap it with a known good one and have access to the data on the platters. But that would be very difficult to do because there are often many revisions to a drive model.</p><p></p><p>But to sum up, I don't think this case is unprecedented - I have seen it MANY times throughout my career. I can certainly relate to your concern though, particularly with an iMac, where getting access to the internal drive is difficult.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cwa107, post: 1348087, member: 24098"] "Should" be able to, yes - but I have seen situations where it can not. I suspect some of this has to do with the fact that they're using writeable flash chips instead of ROMs on modern drive mechs. So, the drive is susceptible to having its own firmware corrupted - my guess is it's probably heat related. If the firmware can't do a handshake on the bus, I don't believe any amount of coaxing would get the drive to actually talk to the controller (any controller, even an external one). With that said, there's a chance that if you could find an identical mech, you could pull the circuit board off the bottom of the drive and swap it with a known good one and have access to the data on the platters. But that would be very difficult to do because there are often many revisions to a drive model. But to sum up, I don't think this case is unprecedented - I have seen it MANY times throughout my career. I can certainly relate to your concern though, particularly with an iMac, where getting access to the internal drive is difficult. [/QUOTE]
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