Re: [PLUG] Fixing bad hard drive

[Paul <gyoza@comcast.net>]

Guillermo Moyna wrote:

> I've done this so many times with Seagate SCSI drives it's not even 
> funny. We bought ~10 machines with identical drives which started 
> failing one after another. My solution was to take the controller from 
> a good one, put it on a bad one, and 'dd' the data to a new, different 
> model/make, SCSI drive of the same capacity. It never failed.
I think this is great, but I think everyone who isn't, should take 
making backups more seriously.
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