I know! As I said, I don't have a pinout for that particular part of the drive to cross-reference against (and I didn't go too deep on looking). But I'm confident enough of my bad soldering that I think the root problem may be elsewhere. Or maybe it's age and wear: it's been in storage and shipped in the last six months since I used it full-time. When I tried it last week it was already intermittently not spinning, and that's part of why I decided to open it up in the first place.rubber_jonnie wrote: ↑Mon Feb 14, 2022 2:30 pmWell that's disappointing!stween wrote: ↑Mon Feb 14, 2022 2:03 pm
Yeah, checked and rechecked. Continuity checks all seemed okay as far as I could gather. The third and fourth pins from the top form a pathway via the spindle board (i.e. if the pins are desoldered completely, there's continuity between those two anyway), but there was no continuity between any other pair of pins once soldered back in place.
It bothers me when I have to give up on an old device. But it turned into a nice little exploratory experience and a bit of solder practice on fiddly components, which is still pretty okay