Date: Fri, 14 Feb 1997 11:18:55 +1030 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: vince@mail.MCESTATE.COM (Vincent Poy) Cc: spork@super-g.com, mark@grondar.za, chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Hard Disk Repair Message-ID: <199702140048.LAA22131@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.970213130450.6202p-100000@mail.MCESTATE.COM> from Vincent Poy at "Feb 13, 97 01:07:02 pm"
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Vincent Poy stands accused of saying: > > How big is the drive that you had repaired? I was offering to > provide a Disk Drive repair place a second identical drive for parts and > they told me that they couldn't fix it either. Depending on what actually happened to the unit, it may be completely unrepairable. Seriously, Vince; you should dump the disk and restore from your backups. I don't know where to start in enumerating the things that could make a 'headcrashed' disk BER; you could have lost all or part of the servo surface, you could have pocked the disk surface (so that when you start the reassembled disk, it will rip the head off the first time it goes past), you could have lost the sector forwarding map or the on-disk configuration information (so that the controller will error out on intialisation)... the list just goes on and on... > Vince - vince@MCESTATE.COM - vince@GAIANET.NET ________ __ ____ -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[
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