Re: [MLUG] dead drive replacement

[Nathan Odle <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Since the issue sounds like it's probably the on-board controller, it's 
often possible to swap the circuit board with another drive of the same 
model in order to recover data.  If the drive is at all recent, I'd go 
out and purchase another then swap the boards, get the data off the 
drive, swap the boards back, and use the new drive as the replacement.  
If the drive is older, you might post the model here in case someone has 
the same drive laying around.

-N



Daniel Nowlin wrote:

> Here is what it is doing.  It will spin up but BIOS will not see the 
> drive.  When it is hooked up it just hoses on auto-detect.  I have 
> tried different cables and computers.  None of my machines are capable 
> of setting the tracks/sectors/heads so I can not try that.  I even 
> tried to put it in a USB external case.
>
> I have the important things on that drive backed up but I really do 
> not want to reinstall.  Like I said, I just got it going about two 
> days ago (FC4 with PHP4).  If I could just get two more boots out of 
> it (one for test, one for image) I would be happy.  I think I might 
> try the freezer trick.
>
> Dan
>
> Mark Rages wrote:
>
> > On 11/5/05, Daniel Nowlin <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:
> >  
> >
> > > Does anybody know how I go about replacing a dead drive in my FC4 box.
> > > It was the drive that had the VAR partition on it.  I just got FC up 
> > > and
> > > running when this happened and I realy do not want to reinstall.  I do
> > > have access to ghost and acronis.
> > >
> > > Dan
> > >   
> >
> >
> > Does it work at all?  Is there anything in /var you need to recover?
> >
> > I never like to suggest this, but if /var is hosed, the easiest
> > recovery is to reinstall, assuming /home and /usr/local are on their
> > own partition and won't be disturbed.  Tar up /etc so you don't have
> > to redo all the configuration.
> >
> >  
>
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