Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1999 11:38:27 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: Patrick Seal <patseal@hyperhost.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Hard drive failure Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.03.9904211137400.27954-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9904201806490.812-100000@foobar.hyperhost.net>
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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
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