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From: Olivier Nicole <on@cs.ait.ac.th>
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Subject: Reading crashed SCSI disk
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Hi,

Last week my mail server disk crashed. I restarted the machine with
spare hard disk and previous night backup, but I have no backup for
the emails received during the last day.

I cannot do a low level SCSI verify, it may be that all spare sectors
have been reallocated. I cannot run an fsck.

I am wondering if there is a way to read the physical blocks (those
that are readable) and save the data, from that I could be able to
rebuild some of the mailboxes.

Best regards,

Olivier