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by DanBC 3858 days ago
One of my hard drives "bricked" itself, and I was able to use such a cable to unbrick it.

This SuperUser post talks about it: http://superuser.com/questions/365999/how-do-i-recover-data-...

http://howto.starahead.com/?p=61

http://www.overclock.net/t/457286/seagate-bricked-firmware-d...

https://sites.google.com/site/seagatefix/Home

I had backups, but still, it was nice to be able to do this.
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Laforet 3858 days ago
When I worked in PC repair I used to see one of these every couple of months or so. It feels great to be able to being them back with no loss of data for the customer. I still have the hacked together PL2302 bridge somewhere in my toolbox.
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