From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 22 7:58:15 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ptldpop1.ptld.uswest.net (ptldpop1.ptld.uswest.net [198.36.160.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 755F814C0C for ; Thu, 22 Apr 1999 07:58:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dpilgrim@uswest.net) Received: (qmail 13753 invoked by alias); 22 Apr 1999 14:55:43 -0000 Delivered-To: fixup-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG@fixme Received: (qmail 13734 invoked by uid 0); 22 Apr 1999 14:55:42 -0000 Received: from fdsl89.ptld.uswest.net (HELO uswest.net) (216.161.80.89) by ptldpop1.ptld.uswest.net with SMTP; 22 Apr 1999 14:55:42 -0000 Message-ID: <371F385B.FDE8068A@uswest.net> Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 07:55:23 -0700 From: Darren Pilgrim Organization: Neatly stacked heaps of digital chaos X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Doug White Cc: Patrick Seal , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Hard drive failure References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Doug White wrote: > > 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. Or a power-lead wiring fault causing breaks in 12V power. Grab a circuit tester and check your power leads. > > 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. Ye best check the warranty wording. Many HD makers explicitly say they are not responsible for your data. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message