Where can I find a Hard drive controller board?

[Everglades W68]

A hard drive failed because a chip on the controller board literally burned out.

Upon looking around, I found out that the drive, manufactured by Quantum, has a history of this type of failure.

Oh, by the way, the name of the drive is, yep, "Fireball." How fitting... :rolleyes:

Anyone know where I can buy a controller board for a Quantum Fireball LCT part number LB15A011, Rev 01-A?

[Everglades W68]

Oh, this just gets better and better:

A guy in Burnville, MN might have one...

If anyone has any suggestions, please let me know.

Thanks.

[Dojo2000]

Wow, Quantum Fireballs are really old. I have a 1GB drive that went out a year ago.

[HAZ-Matt]

Step 1: Buy a Western Digital
Step 2: Take out Quantum Fireball
Step 3: Profit!

[MrCoffee]

Originally posted by HAZ-Matt:
Step 1: Buy a Western Digital
Step 2: Take out Quantum Fireball
Step 3: Profit!

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[Nachius]

LoL find one on ebay that is "clicking" or something. That would mean the internals have hit the platter, but there is a good chance the controller board is still good and should be a lot cheaper than trying to buy from quantum.

[majeskyb]

Is it still under warrantee? If it is, get an rma (sp?) from Quantum. When you get the replacement drive, swap boards, and spend back the new oen with the bad board. Done it before

[Dojo2000]

Originally posted by majeskyb:
Is it still under warrantee? If it is, get an rma (sp?) from Quantum. When you get the replacement drive, swap boards, and spend back the new oen with the bad board. Done it before

Quantum doesn't make harddrives anymore. Maxtor bought their HDD division in 2001.

[Everglades W68]

Originally posted by Nachius:
LoL find one on ebay that is "clicking" or something. That would mean the internals have hit the platter, but there is a good chance the controller board is still good and should be a lot cheaper than trying to buy from quantum.

No the disk on these drives occasionally fail, but apparently, the very commonfailure is to have a burn-out on a Philips chip. The descriptions I've seen match exactly what happened on ours. The Philips chip burns in exactly the same place on each chip. I'm looking around for a replacement.

Originally posted by majeskyb:
Is it still under warrantee? If it is, get an rma (sp?) from Quantum. When you get the replacement drive, swap boards, and spend back the new oen with the bad board. Done it before .

I wish. The drive is a a 15 Gig from 1999. If it was still under warranty, they'd have a boatload of trouble, based on all the identical failures I've read about.

[L32Projekt]

Probably why they sold their division to Maxtor so they could handle all the returns/etc.

[Infernal]

The drive isn't worth the cost of shipping for the part. Unless you have data on there that you just can't part with I'd just pick up a new drive.

[Everglades W68]

OK, so I found a guy in California who sold me his old Fireball. I took the circuit board off his Fireball and replaced my burnt circuit board with his board and.....

The Fireball lives!

We're busy copying data now.

[L32Projekt]

Good deal, glad you could fix it and not be screwed over for that data!