![]() I looked at the data cable connection and found the connector goes right through some tiny coupling capacitors and straight to a controller chip. Refusing to connect to the computer.īut sometimes it would, and I discovered that depending on how you hold the sata data cable it would either work or not work. ![]() I had heard these are notorious for failing. It seemed to be an ordinary 1TB WD green drive. Then I got to inspecting the drive itself. I again checked and rechecked all the other cables and stuff, A-ok. What with the cheapness of materials used and everything I wanted to eliminate connectors as a possibility. I reflowed the solder on several of the parts anyways, for good measure. I tested the bare drive with another bridgeboard and my usb to sata/pata cable adapter thing. So this lead me to believe it was a bridgeboard problem or some stuff like that. And when I could get the drive to work, the noises sounded just about right for a working disk. There wasn’t a problem with the drive mechanics or motors or stuff like that. Though the initial insertion/connection of the usb cable did something. The symptoms were seemingly 80% of the time, it would not connect up to the computer. This drive, what else, is a Western Digital external MyBook Essential 1TB. How I fixed a drive that the system wouldn’t recognize.
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