[Cialug] HDs

[William Christensen]

Buy the same exact drive on ebay or some place and swap the controller  
card on the bottom with another drive. Unless it's a massive head  
crash the controller card has everything on it that you need and the  
highest probability if there has been an electrical failure.  Pending  
what you're dealing with could be dealing with EOS related errors with  
the drives. I'm sure you'll be able to get a few days at least out of  
the drive to get the data off of it. Tolls you'll need should be a  
phillips screw driver and a torx driver bit. I've handled that issue  
many of times so don't be worried (unless the head or pre-amp are boned

-Will


On Jul 28, 2011, at 4:30 PM, L. V. Lammert wrote:

> This is the SECOND drive that I have encountered in the past few  
> weeks - the drive spins up, but it is not detected by the kernel  
> [using a USB adapter].
>
> At one point I got an indication of sdf in dmesg, .. but could not  
> fdisk /dev/sdf.
>
> Any suggestions to recover other than spend $3K at a clean room?
>
> 	Lee
>
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