Brian Vagnoni on 30 Apr 2008 11:58:59 -0700 |
If the drive is currently detected, accessable, and spinning no do not power it down. Hard drives are a lot like planets they need to keep spinning :-) for things to work. First backup the data, then you are free to mess with it. I was referring to the drives electronics rather than the mobo integrated controller card. If this is a pci card bus controller than you mite see problems on other drives as well. Now many hours of operation do you think you have on the drive? Consider doing raid 5 in the future on valuable data as it sure beats recovery. Brian Vagnoni PGP Digital Fingerprint F076 6EEE 06E5 BEEF EBBD BD36 F29E 850D FC32 3955 -----Original Message----- From: Art Alexion <art.alexion@verizon.net> Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2008 12:10 PM To: plug@lists.phillylinux.org <plug@lists.phillylinux.org> Subject: Re: [PLUG] Saving data from a precarious drive On Wednesday 30 April 2008 8:48:23 am Brian Vagnoni wrote: > It sounds more like an electronics problem, or the drive could be fine and > you more likely have a bad cable. If it is a drive board issue get them off > as quickly as possible without powering down the drive. This is the way it seems to me as well. I didn't really think of "bad cable" so much as "bad ATA-100 ide expansion card", which I suppose is what you mean by "drive board". Are you suggesting that I unplug the drive from the card without powering the computer down? > > Have you done any work inside your box recently that mite have disturbed a > cable? No. ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
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