From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 21 11:41:24 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 53C331586D for ; Wed, 21 Apr 1999 11:41:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA11340; Wed, 21 Apr 1999 11:38:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1999 11:38:27 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Patrick Seal Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Hard drive failure In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message