[Gllug] OT HD failure

Jackson, Harry HJackson at colt-telecom.com
Tue Nov 20 16:20:35 UTC 2001


> -----Original Message-----
> From: itsbruce at uklinux.net [mailto:itsbruce at uklinux.net]
> 
> Got back to work today after some time off to discover a) a 
> dead HD on a 
> key machine and b) a colleague who had yet again failed to set-up the 
> backups properly.  Not the disaster it might have been but I wouldn't 
> mind getting at some of the data on the HD (a Samsung 
> SV1022D).  Seems to 
> be a controller failure - any advice from data recovery pioneers?

Do you have any identical drives and if so can you swap bits from one to get
it running then swap it back when you have got the data. I presume when you
say the controller that you mean the PCB if so then you should be able to
change them over and have a go.

Harry


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