Re: Just got a possible prototype Widget disk - any special considerations?

Hi Jason,

Sounds interesting. Can you email some photos of this drive?

I can't say if it would be good or bad to try this drive with another drive's controller. Others on this list with more hardware experience I think would be able to hopefully provide a good answer here. If this was my drive, I would be very hesitant to swap controllers since not sure how compatible the controller would be. I could easily see a situation where the older drive had a different electrical design which was incompatible with newer drives. FWIW, I would base this suggestion on the Hippocratic oath of "do no harm".

Regards,
David Craig

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On December 29, 2014, at 12:24 PM, Jason Perkins wrote:

> I recently picked up what might be a prototype Widget disk. What makes me question it?
> -No apple serial number sticker on the front, instead a 4 digit SN is written in pen (my other 2 widgets have 5 digit SNs on an Apple sticker)
> -The Read/Write and Servo boards are different part numbers than my other 2 drives
> -The MotherBoard has green edge connectors vs. the black on my other 2 drives
> -There are the remains of a warranty sticker on the side of the drive where my 2 others have no sticker
> -The heatsink on the Servo board was trimmed
> -There was no controller included with the drive and I don't see witness marks on the Servo board from one being screwed in
>
> I was going to pop in the controller from one of my other drives and see what happens. However, if there is anything "interesting" on the drive I don't want to risk damaging / erasing it. Are there any special steps I should take?
>
> Thanks,
>
> --
> Jason Perkins

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