Western Digital Harddrive using Controller Chip L6278 1.2

This is the story of my Western Digital hard drive failing due to a L6278 controller chip burning up. This is the follow up story I posted later at the request of a reader. It details the chip swap process results. In the end I was not able to retrieve my data. On the postive side, I didn't kill any other drives while trying.

If you have any success restoring one of these drives, please let me know and I will pass the information on to others.

I occassionaly get email about this topic. Google sends me quite a few people looking for information on the L6278 version 1.2 and Norm Abram. Ocassionally someone even shows up looking for me.