[Gloucs] Post Christmas Blues

[Dave Addison]

Hi All,

Fired up the machine on the 27th and my 30Gb Fujitsu hard disk had 
turned into an inert pile of metal. Looks like it finally succumbed to 
the dead controller chip feature that Fujitsu were building into their 
drives in 2001. Anyway it could have been worse, I lost the /usr 
partition of my RedHat installation and a load of vmware virtual 
machines.

It would be nice to get the vmware stuff back though. It would be a lot 
faster than rebuilding a load of windows installations from scratch. 
Does anybody remember if there was a way of bringing one of these 
defective Fujitsu drives back to life long enough to get the data off?

So far I've managed to retrieve 1.6Gbytes from a cold start but since 
the file I want to retrieve is over 2Gb that doesn't help much.

Anyway it has forced the issue of which distro to go for now that RedHat 
is off support. Looks like Suse 9.0 at the moment. Support for vmware 
and nvidia drivers.
-- 
Dave Addison
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