SATA connector on 4TB 3.5" drive broke off - pins are fine - but drive is acting funky
by cilbuper from LinuxQuestions.org on (#5CWTR)
Sorry, no pics of this hard drive issue. Sata data tab connector broke on a 3.5" HD. All the metal pins are fine but the plastic backing snapped off. I fixed it by using a Female -> Male converter that I hot glued into place and I'm betting full continuity w/ no problems with the SATA data pins.
The problem is when mounted on Ubuntu 2004, it's locking my machine up when I try to navigate in Dolphin. Mouse locks up then I have to do hard reboot.
I got 2TB of CRUCIAL data on this 4TB drive and I don't want to send away for "drive savers" and spend $2-3K.
I have no idea why it's causing it to hang, I suspect the connection with sata pins are just a little wonky. So my options are to get an identical PCB & then transfer the tiny 8 pin bios chip (which totally sucks and doesn't always last very long.)
My other option is to solder on 8 wires onto the area circled in the attached pic. connect jumpers & take an old SATA PCB and only just the physical connector (remove the data & power connector from the old PCB from the trash drive) and then connect the jumper cables to the salvage SATA connectors. I think I only have 8 wires - no need to do the power wires as well for this - that didn't break.
So what do you think? Is there any reason that wouldn't work? I'll use 8 identical length pieces of wire so it's basically just extending the distance from the connection on the PCB for the SATA data connectors to 3-6". I just can't see how this would be an issue - but please LMK if you think there may be a problem! Thanks!!
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The problem is when mounted on Ubuntu 2004, it's locking my machine up when I try to navigate in Dolphin. Mouse locks up then I have to do hard reboot.
I got 2TB of CRUCIAL data on this 4TB drive and I don't want to send away for "drive savers" and spend $2-3K.
I have no idea why it's causing it to hang, I suspect the connection with sata pins are just a little wonky. So my options are to get an identical PCB & then transfer the tiny 8 pin bios chip (which totally sucks and doesn't always last very long.)
My other option is to solder on 8 wires onto the area circled in the attached pic. connect jumpers & take an old SATA PCB and only just the physical connector (remove the data & power connector from the old PCB from the trash drive) and then connect the jumper cables to the salvage SATA connectors. I think I only have 8 wires - no need to do the power wires as well for this - that didn't break.
So what do you think? Is there any reason that wouldn't work? I'll use 8 identical length pieces of wire so it's basically just extending the distance from the connection on the PCB for the SATA data connectors to 3-6". I just can't see how this would be an issue - but please LMK if you think there may be a problem! Thanks!!
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