From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Feb 13 13:08:14 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA08442 for chat-outgoing; Thu, 13 Feb 1997 13:08:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.MCESTATE.COM (vince@mail.MCESTATE.COM [206.171.98.50]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA08433 for ; Thu, 13 Feb 1997 13:08:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (vince@localhost) by mail.MCESTATE.COM (8.8.3/8.8.3) with SMTP id NAA25819; Thu, 13 Feb 1997 13:07:03 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 13 Feb 1997 13:07:02 -0800 (PST) From: Vincent Poy To: spork cc: Mark Murray , chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Hard Disk Repair In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 13 Feb 1997, spork wrote: > We sent in a disk that had less severe damage than that to a firm called > "DriveSavers". The problem with ours was a partially hosed board that in > turn fried the spindle motor. There was no physical damage to the > platters, all they did was take the guts and swap them into a new housing. > This cost about $3500. A head crash is more severe. > > We now have a thorough backup routine... 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. Cheers, Vince - vince@MCESTATE.COM - vince@GAIANET.NET ________ __ ____ Unix Networking Operations - FreeBSD-Real Unix for Free / / / / | / |[__ ] GaiaNet Corporation - M & C Estate / / / / | / | __] ] Beverly Hills, California USA 90210 / / / / / |/ / | __] ] HongKong Stars/Gravis UltraSound Mailing Lists Admin /_/_/_/_/|___/|_|[____]