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Derek Kranefeld (darewreck@home.com)
Sat, 20 Jan 2001 00:27:07 -0800 (PST)
Hello All,
OK, I know, a backup is second to none for any data rescue. Well I wish I
just had the hardware to do it (at least removable that is :)
Here's the story as to why backups are needed and also a warning ** DO NOT
ATTEMPT THIS UNLESS YOU KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING **
One of my hard drives started to go south, in fact I was only able to
resurrect it once and then it really went south and would not come north
again. The problem was in the initialization of the drive, it wouldn't
return proper statuses or proper responses to drive queries from the OS.
Since I had another identical drive (manu. 5 months earlier) and I figured
that this bad drive couldn't get any more bad (well it could, but lets not
go there :) I thought that I should try swapping the attached controller
cards on the drives and see if that could work. WOOHOO!! I was able to get
the drive working like brand new again, and am right now in the process of
getting the information off it for backup.
The moral of the story, have recent backups, mine that I have are at least
2 years old, but also I wouldn't know what I had on the drive until I
started needing it. Also it doesn't hurt to have spare identical
components to try swapping parts with. I still don't have a *good*
removable backup device but I do now have a lot more drive storage space
:) (gotta love those upgrades :> ).
Take er easy, stay cool!
Derek
--
"Has anybody else noticed that Space 1999 can now be classified as
an alternate history show rather than science fiction?"
-- Joe Zeff, in the SDM
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