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Date:      Wed, 21 Apr 1999 11:38:27 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To:        Patrick Seal <patseal@hyperhost.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Hard drive failure
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.03.9904211137400.27954-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9904201806490.812-100000@foobar.hyperhost.net>

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On Tue, 20 Apr 1999, Patrick Seal wrote:

> I just purchased a nice Maxtor IDE drive and moved everything from my old
> SCSI (A Micropolis, which I was informed had a bug in the firmware that
> was giving me random system crashes).  New drive would sorta make a sound
> like it was spinning down, then immediately spin back up, every day or so.
> Yesterday it happened about 10 times in an hour and hasn't happened since. 

This is bad.  Disks resetting themselves indicates a firmware fault.  

> Today I was spring cleanning the insides my computer and booted back up,
> and now the drive seems totally blank.  I booted with my Old SCSI and it
> shows no partitions with fdisk!  What can I do to resurrect the data!

If it's under warranty, Maxtor may be able to recover it for you, but
otherwise it's all gone.

Doug White                               
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve
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