[Gllug] Anyone know anything about hardware ?

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 04:44:06PM +0000, Joel Bernstein wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 04:32:41PM -0000, Wiehe, Simon wrote:
> > I have a faulty hard disk and investigations show that it is a manufacturing fault with a chip on the controller board and there is nothing wrong with the platters or data. I have got a quote of £400+vat to recover the data, they also state that under no circumstances should I attempt to replace the controller board as this store drive characteristics and will cause a drive failure and lose my data.
> > 
> > Anyone got any ideas how I can get this data off the disk? Currently the disk is not recognised by the BIOS, although I have not tried it in a second machine to see if it is recognised in there.
> 
> Firstly, please do try to keep your lines under 76 characters in length.
> 
> Secondly, you haven't mentioned what kind of disk it is. SCSI? IDE?
> Something else entirely? Who made it? What model of disk is it?

Pray that it isn't an IBM DeathStar leaking blue goo and erasing all
magnetic material from the platters :-)

  http://www.astro.ufl.edu/~ken/crash/

Dan
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