From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Nov 26 14:28:09 1995 Return-Path: owner-chat Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id OAA07223 for chat-outgoing; Sun, 26 Nov 1995 14:28:09 -0800 Received: from crh.cl.msu.edu (crh.cl.msu.edu [35.8.1.24]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id OAA07156 for ; Sun, 26 Nov 1995 14:27:46 -0800 Received: (from henrich@localhost) by crh.cl.msu.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id RAA19720; Sun, 26 Nov 1995 17:26:19 -0500 Date: Sun, 26 Nov 1995 17:26:19 -0500 From: Charles Henrich Message-Id: <199511262226.RAA19720@crh.cl.msu.edu> To: petzi@zit.th-darmstadt.de, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Barracuda woes Newsgroups: lists.freebsd.chat References: <4985vc$fae@msunews.cl.msu.edu> X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 #3 (NOV) Sender: owner-chat@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk In lists.freebsd.chat you write: >>My Barracuda just quit on me today taking a large chunk >>of this month's work with it. >> >>Major, heavy-duty sigh. >> >>Can someone with a similiar experience tell me how seagate >>was able to miraculously restore their data. Please. >I heard about companies specialized in this. They take the disks out of the >damaged drive (in clean rooms) and place them in a new drive, for example. >They can also recover disks from burnt computers etc. >I have no addresses, though. Sometimes there are advertisments in "Byte", About 80% of our Barracuda drives have gone south, I would highly recommend against buying any of them. Lately we've been having good luck with Connor 4207S drives, fast, and much cheaper than the seacrates. -Crh -- Charles Henrich Michigan State University henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu http://rs560.msu.edu/~henrich/