I have a number of old (2000-era) DEC StorageWorks disks that fail to
mount under VMS. They report MEDIUM OFFLINE.
They power up in a similar way to other disks that do work, but they
persistently click ina "something isn't right" manner.
I've tried reorienting some of the disks to see if that makes any
difference, and for the ones I've tried, it didn't help.
I've read about the "freezer" trick, but mostly I've seen negative
opinions. However, those opinions mostly come from data recovery
specialists!
So I thought I'd tap the wisdom of the list. Is there any way that
people have used to successfully recover data from RZ28, RZ29 disks
(which all worked in 2003 :-))? Has anyone tried freezing a double
bagged drive? Was it successful? If so, how long did you freeze it for?
These disks are in StorageWorks containers ... should I remove them
before freezing?
Antonio
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Antonio Carlini
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