On 07/01/2011 09:34 AM, Jon Elson wrote: > Dave wrote: >> I have used two different Sata compact flash adapters. >> > Thanks much for the data! >> I'm not a fan of WD drives. I have had problems with them. Seagates >> seem to be much more reliable. >> > Yeah, the WD drive on my kid's computer had a failure in the power-off > head locking mechanism. > I had to open it up to defeat that feature, but may have scratched the > disks while messing with it. > Sometime I'll have to try to recover the data. That kind of stuff > shouldn't happen. > > I am a lot more careful about backing up MY systems.
Check out ddrescue. I've used it with success. It's especially good if you don't need the entire contents of the drive. Karl ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All of the data generated in your IT infrastructure is seriously valuable. Why? It contains a definitive record of application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-c2 _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
