[clue-tech] Hard drive model number.

[Silas Martinez]

I'd think that, typically, a sick hard drive is probably sick due to damage
to platters (vibration/heat/wear). I'd, secondarily, assume that drive
model, etc, information (cmos?) is not stored on the platters, but rather in
the internal controller. My thinking is that, if the drive had damage that
would potentially invalidate its reported model info, you wouldn't be able
to get it to report much of anything.

On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 12:17 PM, mike havlicek <mhavlicek1 at yahoo.com>wrote:

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> -snip-
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> Hmm when hard disks are malfunctioning is it ever possible for them to
> softly report themselves as something different than what they physically
> are? Seems risky to trust anything a delusionally sick drive tells you:)
>
> -Mike
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